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British bulldog afraid to bare taxation teeth
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BEFORE Gordon Brown stood up to speak, bookmakers were offering 6-
4 that he would mention "Britain" fewer than five times in his
speech. By the end of the first 40 seconds, they had lost.
Yesterday's pre-Budget report was about Britain, about Mr Brown
being British (rather than just Scottish) and - most importantly -
his credentials to be the next British prime minister.
But for all the bravado of his pre-Budget speech, Mr Brown failed
to resolve his fundamental contradiction: his tax-and-spend policies
are bringing the UK ever closer to the eurozone he claims to be so
sceptical of.
We are ...
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