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Keep Calm and Borrow

I sometimes meet Matt Buck at the Winchester Web Scene, and think his cartoons are great – this one of course caught my eye!

“The government’s pre budget report is due on December 9th. It’s not hard to imagine the curry houses of Westminster having a bumper week as Mr Darling and the treasury staffers try to work out what the public sector borrowing requirement is going to be while their spending continues to hold up the national economy. The last public estimate was £173Bn during 2010.”

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