If you were in government and had some spare money in the public’s finances there would be four choices open to you:

- Cut the ridiculously high taxes
- Increase spending (bad idea — the government’s NHS debacle has shown it doesn’t work)
- Keep it for a rainy day
- Rearrange toilets in prison to suit a particular religious requirement

I know I’d choose the first one. I know that most sensible people in the world would agree that one of the first three is right. So why is our stupid government doing the last?

Sources: A Tangled Web, Drunken Blogging, Justify This!, You Love It