MY WALLET TREMBLES

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Whenever I listen to a Jonty Bloom report on The World Tonight I start to feel anxious about my wallet. Jonty's always after more public spending, and that means he's after my money.
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Last night he was on about 'green growth', visiting the North East of England, one of the government's 'low carbon economic areas'. Midway through his report came this from Jonty: "But Roy Stanley (owner and chairman of a renewable energies company) says that while the government is giving his fledgling industry as much help as it can (all praise glorious Labour government!) it's nothing compared with the money the Obama administration (all praise glorious Obama!) is throwing at research and development in America."
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Jonty wants some of my money thrown at this too - and soon: "Other countries are well ahead of us in green technology or are spending billions in order to catch up. We have to get the skills, facilities and industries in place very quickly."
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