'Black Hole' Appears Outside United Kingdom Treasury

Bemused Government workers had to step around a black hole which appeared outside the United Kingdom Treasury on Budget day.

The chalk-drawn street art was courtesy of the Conservative party, and featured caricatures of Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Chancellor Alistair Darling disappearing down a cavernous gap in the pavement followed by Darling's red Budget box.

The stunt was designed to highlight what the Tories say is a 'black hole' in the country's finances created by Labour's unprecedented levels of borrowing.

"It's a great drawing and it makes the very good point that there is a black hole in the public finances that Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling are disappearing into. We just hope they don't take the rest of the country with them," said treasury spokesman David Gauke.

"What we hope is that the Government will today hold up its hands and say that what we have at the moment is not something that can be sustained and that there is a clear route out, but what we fear is more gimmicks and more borrowing. We need to see what the Government announces so we have got a clearer picture of the state of the economy."

"Compared to the golden legacy that Gordon Brown inherited when he became chancellor it looks like this Government is going to leave the country in a complete mess."

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