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White van man on... Government spending

I wouldn’t want to be a government bean counter. Everywhere you look there’s bottomless pits or, to mix my metaphors, cuckoos with huge open jaws are demanding ever more grub even though the nest is brassic.

I wouldn't want to be a government bean counter. Everywhere you look there's bottomless pits or, to mix my metaphors, cuckoos with huge open jaws are demanding ever more grub even though the nest is brassic.

The health service will never be satisfied till the last penny of taxpayers' dosh has been hoovered up and even then they'll take the shirts off our backs.

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