Nick Robinson: Can you be straight with the electorate that taxes will have to rise after the recession?
Gordon Brown: I'm always honest with the British people...
I laughed out loud when he said this - clearly another deadpan comedian in government!
But I'm sorry Gordon, always honest did you say?
So...
When you called off the election a year ago and claimed that the polls had nothing to do with the decision, were you being honest?
When you delivered your last Budget as Chancellor - the tax con Budget - was that being honest with the British people (cutting the basic rate of income tax but abolishing the 10p tax rate)?
Was claiming that nobody was worse off after the abolition of the 10p tax rate being honest?
And is your repeated claim that Britain has one of the lowest national debts being honest when you refuse to accept ONS figures and refuse to add PFI liabilities, bank nationalisations and unfunded public pension liabilities to the total? You add all of those Gord and our national debt skyrockets to above 100 percent of GDP. And why are you abolishing your much vaunted fiscal rules - the bedrock of your economic policy on which you built your economic credibility - if your management of our debt has been so good?
Clearly Gordon, mendacity, rather than honesty, is your strong point!!!
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