The Talent in your pocket

Yesterday, at the labour party conference, Gordon Brown the Prime Minister said: "My father was a minister of the church, and his favourite story was the parable of the talents because he believed - and I do too - that each and every one of us has a talent and each and every one of us should be able to use that talent."

What he didn't tell us....... was it the Matthew or Luke version of the parable

The parable of the pound

I tell you, that to every one who has will more be given; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away Luke 19:12-27

Or to misquote Harold Wilson's "boom and bust economics" speech of 40 years ago

The parable in your pocket
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