Al's chance to be Darling of the people.Byline: George Galloway Galloway, district, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland. The Rhinns, or Rinns, of Galloway is a rocky double peninsula that juts into the North Channel of the Irish Sea; its southern extremity is called the Mull of Galloway and is the southernmost point in Scotland. IT'S fair to say Alistair Darling won't do a Susan Boyle when he delivers the first post-slump budget on Wednesday. And judging by yesterday's opinion polls - putting the Tories on 43 per cent to New Labour's 26 per cent - the home audience wants him out anyway. But my money is on the Chancellor quietly surprising us. In a Government of bigheaded incompetents, Darling is a modest success. No one should think the economic problems we have are his fault - the worldwide capitalist collapse and the hubris Hubris An arrogance due to excessive pride and an insolence toward others. A classic character flaw of a trader or investor. of his predecessor are to blame for those - and he was, after all, the first Government Minister to tell us that we were in for the worst circumstances CIRCUMSTANCES, evidence. The particulars which accompany a fact. 2. The facts proved are either possible or impossible, ordinary and probable, or extraordinary and improbable, recent or ancient; they may have happened near us, or afar off; they are public or since the 1930s depression. He was slapped down and sent out to recant; just weeks before the house fell down. This may be his last budget and so his one last chance. When he was a young man, a bearded Edinburgh Marxist, he could only have dreamed of such a chance. A chance to properly tax the rich, and the super-profits of the oil and energy suppliers. A chance to set the working poor free from tax altogether. A chance to halve halve tr.v. halved, halv·ing, halves 1. To divide (something) into two equal portions or parts. 2. To lessen or reduce by half: halved the recipe to serve two. 3. our deficit by scrapping the ludicrous new nuclear weapons purchases. A chance to use the collapse of finance capital to change the paradigm. Go on Alistair, you know you want to. Show them Scotland's Got Talent. CAPTION(S): BUDGET: Darling |
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