Seven score and eight years ago a man spoke to dedicate the cemetery on a battlefield which had seen over 46,000 casualties including nearly 8,000 killed.
He pointed out that the living could not dedicate that place since the dead had already consecrated the ground with their blood. The living, rather, had to dedicate themselves to the unfinished work for which the dead had died.
Increase taxes say many. But tax take averages 35% – 37% of GDP whatever is done. Tax Freedom Day http://www.adamsmith.org/tax-freedom-day/ has varied little over the last 40 years
Harold Wilson 1969 29th May
The battle is raging fiercely. The usual tools of generalisation, casuistics, feeble and sometimes misleading statistics, are being brought into play.
Riding in to help the beleaguered coalition is, believe it or not, the Guardian newspaper! Simon Jenkins has pointed out that if George Osborne gets what he wants total public spending, in real terms, will be £640bn in 2015 compared to £665bn today. Even more telling is that after New Labour’s first term on office it was only £449bn.
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