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Written by Administrator
Tuesday, 01 February 2011 13:00 |
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Budget Box Empty |
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 Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has commented that the iconic red box held aloft by his predecessors for decades just before delivering the annual budget has been empty for years because it is locked and the keys are missing. “I’ll let you into a terrible truth, which is that the budget box is locked and the keys were lost years ago,” Osborne said at a lunch with political journalists in London. “So when the chancellor stands up with that old budget box, there is nothing in it and there hasn’t been for years.” Osborne went on to reveal that the chancellor’s traditional robes ‘went missing’ when Gordon Brown was in office between 1997 and 2007. He also described his battle with bureaucrats to prevent the Treasury spending £875 ($1,380) on a Christmas tree. (Source: www.businessweek.com)
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