Bernard Manning has today said "read my lips; no new taxes".

Speaking at Alton Towers Bernard Manning’s comments come in a week that has seen hoodies involved in threatening to smash up branches of McDonalds and Starbucks on an ever more frequent basis.

Bernard Manning’s comments are both brave and perceptive. In a country where children as young as five are regularly exposed to hoodies it is about time that someone had the guts to stand up and tell the truth. Hoodies and the liberal communist atheist society that spawns them must be eliminated.