You know when politicians are in trouble, it's when they say, I don't recognise the figure.
It means that the figure is pretty accurate, but it's not absolutely spot on.
The wonderful genius Christopher Hope got this out of Andrew Burnham.
He said: "All the spending yesterday announced we think more than £200billion if you add it all up. Taxes won't go up to pay for that?"
Mr Burnham responded: "I don't know where you get that figure from. I'm not sure I recognise that figure."
There you go. £200billion or thereabouts of extra expenditure when we are already running a deficit of about £120billion a year.
The economy is running out of money. The very simple point is that Government expenditure is running at about 45 per cent of GDP, while taxation is at 38 per cent of GDP.
And however you cut taxation, however you squeeze people, whether it's window taxes, 98 per cent income tax, this country is never willing to pay more than 38 per cent of GDP.
So you have a settled, stark seven per cent deficit. You've got a little bit in fees, you get a little bit from asset sales, but you've still got around five per cent built in deficit.
The only way to reduce it is by cutting expenditure. Instead, Andy Burnham wants to spend a lot more of your money by nationalisation, by deciding that the state runs things better than the private sector does.
Now, which of you would like your supermarket to be run by His Majesty's Government? Or would prefer it, in fact, to be run by competitive private companies?
Once you've answered that question, you know why the profit motive, the private sector is better at running things.
But this is also uncovering the humbug of Burnham, because he said in the Times in May that our relentless focus now should be on domestic issues and fixing our own underlying problems, rather than on rerunning divisive arguments about rejoining the European Union.
And so you've torn all that up. He now wants to talk about rejoining the European Union to try and hide the domestic problems, which are ultimately going to overwhelm this Government.
As Margaret Thatcher said, the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
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You know when politicians are in trouble, it's when they say, I don't recognise the figure.
It means that the figure is pretty accurate, but it's not absolutely spot on.
The wonderful genius Christopher Hope got this out of Andrew Burnham.
He said: "All the spending yesterday announced we think more than £200billion if you add it all up. Taxes won't go up to pay for that?"
Mr Burnham responded: "I don't know where you get that figure from. I'm not sure I recognise that figure."
There you go. £200billion or thereabouts of extra expenditure when we are already running a deficit of about £120billion a year.
The economy is running out of money. The very simple point is that Government expenditure is running at about 45 per cent of GDP, while taxation is at 38 per cent of GDP.
And however you cut taxation, however you squeeze people, whether it's window taxes, 98 per cent income tax, this country is never willing to pay more than 38 per cent of GDP.
So you have a settled, stark seven per cent deficit. You've got a little bit in fees, you get a little bit from asset sales, but you've still got around five per cent built in deficit.
The only way to reduce it is by cutting expenditure. Instead, Andy Burnham wants to spend a lot more of your money by nationalisation, by deciding that the state runs things better than the private sector does.
Now, which of you would like your supermarket to be run by His Majesty's Government? Or would prefer it, in fact, to be run by competitive private companies?
Once you've answered that question, you know why the profit motive, the private sector is better at running things.
But this is also uncovering the humbug of Burnham, because he said in the Times in May that our relentless focus now should be on domestic issues and fixing our own underlying problems, rather than on rerunning divisive arguments about rejoining the European Union.
And so you've torn all that up. He now wants to talk about rejoining the European Union to try and hide the domestic problems, which are ultimately going to overwhelm this Government.
As Margaret Thatcher said, the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
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