Wogan Sense

It has, in days of old, been an on-going joke about the lucidity of the Irish - one which Wogan - he of 'Sir Terry' fame - promptly debunks.

In his column today, in the Sunday Telegraph, he recounts the following:

"I'll only say that any Government which thinks that it is blinding us with fiscal flummery is sorely mistaken. The public can see the blindingly obvious when it's in front of them.

For some months we've been told that since our privately owned banks have got into trouble the only way for the Government to save them is to buy a big slice of the banks and put it into public ownership.

And now, since the publicly owned Post Office has run into difficulties, the only way it can be saved from rack and ruin is to sell off a big slice and put it into private ownership.

Anyone spot the deliberate error there?"

Gordon? Alistair? Peter? Anyone?