I NEARLY threw a shoe through the television screen as our self-satisfied Prime Minister boasted how his government had reduced the national deficit.

The national debt has risen ten per cent every year since he took office.

That means in 2015 when he is rightly booted out of office, the debt will be 50 per cent higher than he inherited.

An apology for failure would be more fitting.

Godfrey Bloom, MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.