Grant Shapps quote
'It now looks like only a quarter those Brown said he would help will actually benefit from the [stamp duty] relief.'
'It's time for Gordon Brown to apologise for raising expectations and once again failing to deliver.'
Mickeyl says
Gordon is not into apologies. Trouble is if he apologises for over-spinning the help from the stamp duty relief and the banking crises [plural] then there is a long list of apologies needed on other matters which is neatly summarised by 'scarrface' on a BBC news blog
16. At
11:51am on 06 Mar 2009,
scarrface wrote:
Apologise for what you ask?OK - I'll have a stab.
Apologise for selling gold at bargain basement prices when he was strongly advised not to.
Apologise for crippling taxes on pension schemes that destroyed them, when he was strongly advised not to.
Apologise for saying no more boom or bust, when anyone could see that cheap chinese imports and crazy credit would come home to roost at some point.
British jobs for british workers - say sorry.
Abolishing 10p tax rate - another classic.
Apologise for releasing selective, misleading, knife crime figures when he was told not to.
Apologise for watching a select few private equity and hedge fund (Sir..., Lord... ) individuals pillage the economy and pay no tax.
Apologise for creating a benefits culture that has an underclass breeding like rabbits to draw down money for booze, fags and plasma screens.
Apologising for saying you are bringing children out of poverty when what you are doing is giving their under-class parents more money for booze, fags and plasma screens.
Apologise for replacing District Councils with impersonal unitaries when every referendum votes against them.
Apologise for the security mess at airports which inconviniences the majority at the expense of upsetting a minority with profiling.
Apologise for the wars.
Apologise for the Obama visit - ye gods, that was painful.
Apologise for the Audit Commission, Ofsted, Quality Care Commission, Constabularies inspectorate and all of the other gestapo organisations that stop people doing their real jobs and make them tick boxes that tell you nothing and cost billions to run - does Haringey ring a bell.
Apologise for that while you are on a roll.
Just say sorry and go.[/s]
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