‘Let Them Eat Bingo’: Assessing #Budget2014
On this week's show James Butler and Aaron Bastani discuss 'Budget 2014'.
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Proletarian Pantomine: 8 Politicians Who Slum It Like the Rest of Us
Grant Shapps' patronising beer and bingo tweet captured the popular imagination this week as social media leapt on the opportunity to create some pithy parodies, exposing the Conservatives as out-of-touch contra to their claims of being the 'Workers' Party'. Shapps isn't the first and won't be the last to fail at getting down with the proles.
‘Let Them Eat Bingo’: 5 Things About #Budget2014
Here Aaron Bastani takes a quick look at today's budget. Little has changed from the growth model leading up to the crisis of 2008 he says and the budget is filled with assumptions and projections that are bordering on delusional.