"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery"
Pity that te preceding umpteen years of government failed to read that too.
That was one of my mothers favourite sayings when I left home, she just couldn't keep her nose out of my finances, or anything else. :yell:
one of my favourite sayings - and it totally unfair to imply that this was not practiced by her predecessors
Quote from: Michael Rolls on October 17, 2022, 12:48:08 PMtotally unfair to imply that this was not practiced by her predecessors
You are joking of course. Governments have been running with a budget defecit all of this century and apart from brief periods of surplus since the 70s
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn06167/#:~:text=Since%201970%2F71%2C%20the%20government,surplus%20was%20in%202000%2F01.
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