Selling the Barn Door After the Black Horse Has Eaten It

Now, here's a thing: the banks at which the Glorious Successor and his Darling threw thousands of millions of taxpayers' money in order to ensure that Britain's rich people were best placed to endure the economic recession which those same banks had helped to cause - those same banks are making fraudulent benefit claims by pricing toxic property loans at their values as of December last year, since which time their worth has fallen by more than ten per cent. The Liberal Democrat spokesman for the Treasury has written to Gordon's little Darling, suggesting that perhaps the loans ought to be subjected to the scrutiny of independent valuers before the Government commits yet more taxpayers' money to making the economy even better able to sustain even more of a recession than was previously thought. He also suggests that the Government "must not sweep this £500bn problem under the carpet until after the election" and leave the Daveybloke administration to take any shortfall out of the hides of the undeserving poor. Doubtless Gordon's little Darling will give the advice of the Liberal Democrat spokesman for the Treasury the careful consideration it deserves.