The UK keeps calm and carries on toward French-style disaster

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The United Kingdom is slowly sliding off a fiscal cliff edge. Absent major spending cuts, the U.K. will suffer a systemic crisis like the one afflicting France. Beholden to socialism, the U.K.’s Labour government seems determined to bury its head in the sand.

That’s the takeaway from Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey’s budget, which was released on Wednesday.

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