What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble wi
“Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.”