There's something distinctly `1984' about the Chancellor's statement that Britain is poised to weather the recession - and this at a time when our budget account deficit is set to rise to a record £72 billion.
As O'Brien, the state interrogator in the novel, says to his victim: `Sometimes two and two can be five, and not four.' He also says to his victim: `You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.'
This is our problem. We are not sane. Only the government is sane.
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