OF COURSE THERE WILL BE CUTS, AND EXTRA TAXES.

Profligacy has to be paid for. The writer has never been one to indulge in the stupidity of the credit surge and subsequent bubble; this may be considered to be history, but has still to be paid for. For anyone to say that we are out of recession is plainly stupid. The signs will be when the 'TO LET' boards disappear from the high street. The sector of the workforce which can still afford to shop is probably that run by the state, on borrowed money. This has to be considered, and soon.

We heard today that 'Incapability' Brown continues to lambaste the Tories regarding their opposition to an increase in National Insurance contributions; let us pause here, and say to ourselves, where does additional taxation cease? Only a few years ago, this apology of a Government were implying that we were well off; in actual fact, our standards have been going down and our taxes up, since 1997.

In Brown's denunciation of the opposition regarding NI., which he insists was scribbled on the back of an envelope, he then adds that they, the Government, have made £15 billion savings and transferred them to front line services, whatever these might be. What on earth were we doing, funding that kind of expenditure on something so obviously unnecessary, and for how long?. That is before we consider the waste of taxpayer GB's cash on Identity cards and NHS records.




HAVE WE GOT AN ENORMOUS BILL TO PAY? YOU BET WE HAVE.