Christmas Is Over As Tories Return Us To Reality.

The Institute For Public Policy Research has issued a warning today that George Osborne's austerity measures have severely damaged the country's economy. Unemployment is set to rise in the new year as it dips back into reccession. Meanwhile a new "stealth tax" on tax credits, the means by which government subsidise those businesses who don't want to pay a living wage, will take £2.5 billion from the lowest paid in the country. And, just for good measure, the Tories have now lifted the income cap in the NHS so this national asset can devote 50% of its activity to treating private patients. We asked George Osborne, the multi-millionaire Chancellor for the Exchequer, for his view; "I know. Marvelous isn't it? Even better, the banks are doing well and I'm still really, really rich. I understand that ordinary people are suffering but I'm afraid its necessary if we are to continue with our policy of pauperising the nation to please the banks and floging off national assets to please the bloodsuckers waiting to steal what isn't theirs. There really is no alternative if we are to maintain the unfair and unequal system that we in Britain love so much - well some of us anyway. Look on the bright side - David Cameron is still annoying the French and Germans and that's the main thing according to the "Daily Mail." Christmas is over I'm afraid and the government is eager to shoulder the burden of torturing the entire country once more in 2012."