What 5.4 billion gets you these days
October 10th, 20061 ID card system for the first ten years (read: 1 extremely rich IT consultancy firm and no working ID card database)
About 7% of a new nuclear deterrent. (which is the greater waste of money?)
Around 100 new hospitals.
1000 pounds of tax back in the hands of every man, woman and child in the country.
Over 200,000 of these…
… anyway…. I digress. What a neat beard that man has.
Been listening to Sinead O’Connor (Lion and the Cobra) and the Waterboys (eponymous) a bit tonight. It’s been a long time. Makes me feel old and young at once. And it’s good to have a sing along now and again.