*checks* bloody hell! You are right!

This was one of the weirdest ‘holding politicians to account’ episodes for a while. It made no sense from start to finish. Actually, The whole reporting of this year's budget from the month of speculation to this rubbish has been dreadful.

I have always thought you have to have an odd worldview to become incensed about governments spending money to look after the welfare of their people.

Neophytes surely?

If you don't think of football in those terms it is just a bunch of grown men getting paid a lot of money to kick a ball about ;)

He could say 'for the last few years we have benefited from positive fiscal transfers, but if you look at the 80s the opposite was true, with independence we would look to structure the economy to smooth out these good and bad years, which may sometimes result in some very tough spending decisions'

Consider it the price you pay for integrity.