There’s a story in today’s BBC News Online that says that some of our most senior civil servants were so upset at spending decisions that were being taken, in the last few months of our previous administration, that they (the senior civil servants) asked for written instructions, to cover themselves.
Whether this story is true or not – and I’m not going to even crank up that discussion – the really interesting point to fall out of the woodwork is the rebuttal.
The most senior money-manager in the last administration, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Allistair Darling, said that the new administration was ‘playing the oldest trick in the book’ by ‘blaming the predecessor for the state of the economy’.
Yes?
And?
Who else, I wonder, does Mr Darling feel should be blamed?
Just asking.
But if you can come up with a suitable answer to that question, could you let me know?
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I blame that bigoted woman.
Well according to Mr Darling and the rest of his gang, the Conservatives are to blame, in particular Margeret Thatcher. You surely can’t have expected them to correct any problems handed over from the previous administration in a mere 13 years can you?
This is very disappointing. No-one has come up with a suitable answer to the question. Soupy blames that bigoted woman and Vicola blames Margaret Thatcher. And I’m not sure what the difference between the two is.
Can’t anyone find someone more realistic to pin the blame on? Timmy Mallet? Norman Wisdom? Ant and Dec?