It’s illegal not to cut the deficit

Gordon Brown turns up in Brighton for the Labour Party Conference and announces that he is going to make it illegal for the government not to halve the deficit by 2015. This will apparently give Middle England confidence that a Labour Government would achieve this target despite spending money hand over fist up until next year’s election. It is hard to think of a crasser insult to the general public. I just wonder if his audience is not the Americans and others who can see this country going bankrupt yet spending money unrestrainedly.