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Brown makes major slip at D-Day Commemoration Service

At today's commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings, Gordon Brown makes another catastrophic error. This time referring to the action that took place on "Obama Beach" instead of "Omaha Beach".

Idiot.

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Will they never learn?

As April's borrowing stats show that the public sector's net debt has increased by half in just two years, I think that the following quote is as appropriate now as it was 34 years ago.

It’s the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They’ve got the usual socialist disease — they’ve run out of other people’s money.

Margaret Thatcher.
Speech to Conservative Party Conference, 10th October 1975.

Full text of this speech is available at the Margaret Thatcher foundation.

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