Give us a Br(e)ake!
Oh how we laugh at some of these pre-budget press-releases. Everyone's an expert. Accountants, PRs , economists all sending out spin about what the Chancellors should do. They mostly go straight in the bin.
But at least we got a chuckle from the spelling mistake in the press-release from Portsmouth Lib Dem MP Mike Hancock's office. Bold as brass, top of the page:
MP says Chancellor should give drinkers, motorists and the tourist industry a brake in this week's budget
Well the high price of fuel has certainly "given motorists a brake" but I think that's not what he's calling for...
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At 20:25 3rd Apr 2011, TGR Worzel wrote:A good example of the danger of relying upon smell checkers...
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