Whilst I could quite happily congratulate the Egyptian people for finally forcing Mubarak to step down and sing the praise of liberty and 'people power' (no doubt almost every blog on the left & right will be tomorrow morning), I would like to tack another, somewhat less monumental, development into the history pages of 11th February 2011.
"Piling cuts on top of cuts, House Republican leaders outlined an additional $26 billion in spending reductions on Thursday in hopes of placating conservatives who rejected an initial draft as too timid."So we have Egypt & Tunisia sorting out their democracies, the Americans piling on the pressure to reduce their budget deficit & the tea party is still going strong, but what about the UK? We seem to be stuck discussing the same old nonsense and bickering over the same old moronic issues (at least according to the BBC). Will revolution fever ever catch on over here, I can only hope?
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