This week’s PBR looks set to be Brown’s most political Budget yet
Ok, so all Brown Budgets are political – but signs are that this week’s PBR could be his most blatantly partisan yet. I mean, just look at his speech this morning on improving efficiency in the public sector. Some of its measures are welcome – for instance, pledging to cut the pay of senior servants, and the general idea of using technology more effectively in government. But, as other folk have pointed out (see Guido and Iain Dale), the measures are insufficient to the scale of the debt crisis, and many are old news. All in all, the signs are as we expected: Brown is paying only lip service to
