Truth is often the first casualty at election time but Gordon Brown has issued a .. er.. misleading statement so egregious that it must be picked up on.
At the last Prime Minister's Questions Brown, and interestingly Alastair Darling before him, said that the Tories' refusal to raise National Insurance Contributions was 'taking money out of the economy'.
Of course not raising taxes is in fact leaving money in the economy. It is taking money out of the already bloated State.
It may be an error that these old lefties confuse the State with the economy but I don't think so. Why this has been let through by the BBC I don't know. Probably they have no one with any economic nous.
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