Waste continued...
Peter Hoskin 4:24pm
Following Fraser's earlier comments on Tory spending, I thought I'd point out Iain Martin's excellent post on tax credits over at Three Line Whip. Martin rightly characterises Brown as a "wasteful spendaholic":
"The next time the PM calls the Tories a bunch of lunatic cutters who will defile the public realm, they should call him a spendaholic who has put the bill on our, the taxpayers, account."Just for the record, yesterday's tax credit report isn't the first time (or even the second - third - forth - or fifth time) that the Public Accounts Committee has accused the Labour Government of immense waste of taxpayers' money. And that's before we get onto whether the massive, post-2000 taxation and spending increases have delivered comensurate improvements in public services more generally...
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Fergus Pickering
February 6th, 2008 11:26am Report this commentOf course Labour waste money. That is what they do, pretty well what they are FOR. They wasted it in 1964-70. They wasted it in 1974-79. And they waste it now. The tories are the nasty party who cut things - spending and taxes. It's not complicated and it doesn't need a careful analysis. It's just the way things are.
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