So, the Budget was supposedly a great give-away, with billions for public sector workers, the health service, social care, the police, tackling neighbourhood crime and prison building etc, etc, etc.
The tiny fly in this generous healing ointment is that the Tory Government is only GIVING BACK PART of the billions and billions it took away from services during its spiffing ten-year "austerity" programme.
It reminded me of a parallel of which I thought Chancellor Rishi Sunak needed to be made aware:
Dear Mr Sunak,
Your Budget reminded me of a little kerfuffle 58 years ago.
A gang hijacked a mail train and escaped with £2.6 million, £55 million at today's value.
The Post Office/The Queen/Us were subsequently handed back less than £400,000 of the missing cash. This recovery received slightly less glowing praise than did your Budget handouts, I seem to recall.
Try hard and you just might be able to compare the Great Train Robbery to your party's ten years of austerity cuts and your Budget to the recovery of the paltry amount of the money stolen? Where are our still missing billions?
As for who is coshed train driver Jack Mills in this analogy, I will let you draw the obvious conclusion.
I would like to remind you that the ringleaders of the robbery were each jailed for 30 years but, doubtless as a result of your cuts to the criminal justice system, no Tories are likely to be locked up for taking so much from the electorate.
Kind regards,
Reg.
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