Legendary redistributionary economist Robin Hood today threatened to sue the Conservative Party and the Chancellor George Osborne for defamation as Osborne's Budget was described as a 'Robin Hood budget' in some quarters.
"They've taken my theory of redistributative policy and turned it on it's head" Hood told our reporter "and are using the Robin Hood brand in a way that damages my reputation". He continued, saying "robbing old folk of their pensions carefully salted away over the years would have played very badly with my key Merrie Men demographic, let alone then handing that over to the already wealthy. My theory of redistibution very definitely went in the other direction and that's the issue here".
On the wider economy, Hood also had words for the Chancellor. "He seems wedded to the idea of a trickle-down economy, but this has been shown time and again to be a complete fallacy - an illusion at best, a downright lie at worst. Indeed, I only entered the economic arena in order to help it trickle down a bloody sight faster than it would otherwise have done".
Hoodian economics has proved controversial in the past, with critics in the office of the Sheriff of Nottingham claiming it is 'the politics of envy'. "It's nothing to do with jealousy", countered Hood, "more a sense of fairness that's been sadly lacking since King John's infamous 'no such thing as feudal society' speech in the early 1980s. It's typical of the Sheriff's staff to politick in this way to detract from the real issues - entrenched poverty, chronic lack of jobs and stagnant economic growth leading to yet more borrowing".
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