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Choking on my Weeties

Governments really do need to get out of our lives

10 September 2022

9:00 AM

10 September 2022

9:00 AM

It was a genuine ‘choking on my Weeties’ moment. (Is this an Australian expression? Who even eats Weeties, by the way?) There it was in the newspaper – a quote from Boris Johnson, terminal Prime Minister of the UK, telling us that ‘people have the best feel for how to spend their own money, rather than governments’.

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