Kagey, Linthwaite

Mar 15 2008 by Our Correspondent, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

WATCHING Alistair Darling delivering his Budget speech on the telly I felt a slight (only a slight) twinge of sympathy for the man.

He looked thoroughly dejected and gave the impression that he was about to burst into tears.

Seated just behind him was his “Master’’ with a smirk on his face, as if to say: “At last I have found someone to take the flak from me.”