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Driving back from the station in my wife’s V40 this evening I found myself behind something called a Sunbeam Arrow. It was left hand drive (yes, that’s left hand drive). Following a quick bit of research it seems its the North American version of the Hillman Hunter, and there was no doubt that it was a carbon copy of that venerable motor.
As it pottered along manfully trying to overcome a dodgy exhaust it made a quaint sight. In its day this was a mainstream family car, the bygone equivalent of a Ford Mondeo. Yet it seemed tiny in comparison to the V40, with a preposterously narrow track and surprisingly low roof-line. My, how cars have grown over the years.
But not parking bays.
The story of Darlings emergency mini budget, of Labours unfunded tax cut, of Darling’s fiscal boost to the economy, is of course all over the blogosphere. Many point to the absurdity of Labour brazenly, cravenly, wretchedly following the same course that they regularly accuse the Conservatives of, of unfunded spending policies.
I have to say for me it brings an overwhelming image to my mind. The Marx Brothers made a great movie called ‘Go West’. In it they are trying to escape the villains on a train which runs out of fuel. Inspired by Harpo they saw and chop the train to bits, leaving it shredded, to feed the boiler it until they finally run out of train and the engine runs out of steam.
Just how much of our train is left for Labour to vandalise? How long before the bad news finally catches up with us?
Oh, and Sam Coats asks, ‘how much is £2.7 billion?’ Well by the approximation measure that Gordon Brown regularly uses, its £5 billion.
