Great?

According to 'Burning our Money' Britain has become great again, but not in a good way. We have the greatest government deficit of the developed world

Here's an extract :

we must just record an eye-popping chart recently published by the OECD. It shows their estimate of the fiscal deficit each of their members will clock up this year (as a percentage of GDP). And as we can see, we are at the very bottom of the league.

THE VERY WORST GOVERNMENT DEFICIT IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD.

You should remember this chart next time you hear Brown/Darling or one of their media apologists telling us we are helpless victims of an international problem. The reality is that we are worse placed than anyone else - including basket cases like Ireland and Iceland.

See the chart here and weep, for us, our children, our grandchildren and probably our great-grandchildren too.

Who would have thought that a mere twelve years of socialism could do this - thanks Gordon!

UK's debt increases by £10.6 billion

Just spotted on Letters from a Tory.

On the 23rd May 2009, the Government put in place a new Statutory Instrument (in effect, a law that doesn’t need Parliamentary approval) that altered the Industrial Development Act of 1982

and

We are going to have to borrow a record £175 billion a year to balance the books and national debt is going to double, yet Gordon Brown is just burning our money for the fun of it

and

In the last few days alone, our national liabilities have increased by £10.6 billion. Gordon Brown has crippled this country for years to come

Please read today's Letter (addressed to Hazel Blears), it's here.

It's all very unsettling, and desperately worrying for the future.

Mrs R isn't at all pleased with the way this government appears to be deliberately removing any chance this country may have of a decent future, and doing it without parliamentary discussion because legislation put onto the statute books using Statutory Instruments.

For a few years Mrs R has had a bee in her bonnet about government's use of SIs to push through almost secret laws, her family told her she was bonkers.

Seems not.

A "citizen" who lives in a "region".

Mrs R is asked, now and then, for her opinion.

The other day, in the profiling questions at the beginning, she was asked of which "region" she was a "citizen". These were the options : -

• Scotland
• England
• Wales
• Northern Ireland

Mrs R wasn't aware that either of these were "regions" she had thought they were countries.

Maybe somebody, somewhere, knows something she doesn't and people like Mrs R are sleepwalking into a living in a Republic - because it's in those that individuals are referred to as "citizens".

Citizens is also a term that nice Mr Brown is using increasingly often when he refers to the people of the United Kingdom.