Gordon Brown delights in telling us that the government has created 3 million jobs since 1997, completely ignoring that it’s the private sector that creates jobs (and the government that impedes job creation).  But now that the People’s Bank, Northern Rock, will be doing away with 2000 jobs by 2011 I wonder whether Brown will adjust his figures? 

There’s nothing quite like sacking people in your heartland when it comes to shoring up support for a general election.  Maybe next Brown will do away with the Barnett Formula.