Dear Chief Secretary to the Treasury,
I'm afraid to tell you there's no money left.
Signed, Liam Byrne

(Outgoing Labour Chief Secretary to the Treasury. May 2010)
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Thursday, 7 January 2010

Simon the Seer.

In September 2007 Sion Simon wrote
Shortly there will be an election, in which Labour will increase its majority, and in so doing utterly shatter the glass paradigm of cyclical politics which has contained us for the century since 1906. This ought to herald another decade of strong, confident, consensual Labour government. Which will finally and irrevocably transform the nature of politics and civic life in Britain.
He said a lot more, it would seem that he was a bit of a seer, because we Rigbys think his party's term in government has most certainly fulfilled the aim outlined in the last sentence of this quote.

The extract is taken shamelessly from Obo's site. It's worth looking at what else Obo has to say about it, and following his link too.

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