It s a soundbite that has served george osborne well down the years and he s still using it as the rationale for the government s deficit.
Fix the roof while the sun is shining osborne.
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Osborne we ll fix the roof while the sun is shining yep george s catchphrase has staged a glorious return.
We must act now to fix the roof while the sun is shining.
Fix the roof while the sun is shining.
George osborne justified this approach by referring to a past failure to fix the roof when the sun was shining and the evidence for this is well documented.
If so the quote probably goes back to a saying.
W e are fixing the roof while the sun is shining.
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The risks are being piled up for 2018 onwards.
The chancellor has announced that he will attempt to bind future governments to maintaining a budget.
Fixing the roof while the sun is shining osborne s new spending rule.
The accompanying forecasts published by the office for budget responsibility yesterday showed that the perennial output gap will have closed by then.
Nigeria must fix the roof while the sun is shining if it wants to survive the next storm.
Between 1997 and 2010 the uk saw the largest increase in public spending as a share of national.
Kennedy what does that mean.
Kennedy the time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining state of the union address january 11 1962.
The time to repair a roof is when the sun is shining.
The sun is shining on the economy and if the roof is not exactly fixed it has been patched up.
Famously said the time to fix the roof is while the sun is shining as we enter the 11th year of this recovery it is definitely time to do a full assessment of our roof testing where the vulnerabilities lie and fixing.
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