editorial cartoons

The first stirrings of an election campaign are becoming visible. The dreadful dtate of the economy can't be denied but both sides are trading insults based on how big the cuts will be and how precipitately the axe will fall. Alastair Darling hedges and shows reticence in admitting that there will be ANY cuts under the golden dawn of a renewed Labour administration. At length, George Osborne, for the Tory camp, claims that Darling's belated implicit admission of limited cuts shows just what a small axe he's got.

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