Toryism was out in its most naked colours yesterday. Osborne wants an additional £11.5bn spending cuts by 2015-6, and intends to get them by £5bn so-called efficiency savings (a hypocritical blanket cover for straightforward cuts), £2.6bn cuts to local authority budgets (already cut by 30-40% since 2010 for many Councils in the North), and £500m […]
Posts Tagged ‘Public Spending Review’
A dreadful spending review but Labour still has key lessons to learn
Jun 27th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.
Osborne’s zombified spending review
Jun 27th, 2013 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.When his pallid figure rose to address the House just after lunch time, there was no sign of the urbane, erotic charm characteristic of the intelligent, blood-sucking undead. Instead, what we got was a cadaverous chancellor devoid of all thought, save that of the decaying dogma that animates his being. This spending review, this budget […]
