The BBC does say this:
Cable warning over spending cuts
Serious damage will be done to industry if only certain government departments are subject to spending cuts, Business Secretary Vince Cable has warned.
In a Guardian interview at the Lib Dem spring conference, he questioned whether departments such as health and development should be protected.’
From the Guardian:
‘Cable challenged the whole premise of the spending review, including Cameron’s insistence that the schools, health, aid and defence equipment budgets must be excluded from the cuts, as they have been since 2010.
He said: “All our departments should be doing their bit by efficiency and reform.” ‘
Nothing from Labour either so far…..no ‘Grannies and children will die if Cable cuts the NHS’?
This is all so far: Shadow financial secretary to the Treasury Chris Leslie has responded for Labour. He said that Cable “may at last be seeing sense”.
Wonder what Cable talked about when he had a little chat with Labour recently?
Senior Liberal Democrats in secret talks with Labour
‘……nothing less than treachery to the Government of which he is a part.’
BBC are keen to highlight this Conservative cock up on ‘Today’:
‘Business minister Michael Fallon and Chris Leslie, shadow treasury minister, debate how damaging David Cameron’s “misrepresentation” of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s views may be for the government.’
Listen to the discussion
What does Cable say about that:
Did austerity kill growth?
‘The data does not support the conclusion that deficit reduction has had dramatic effects on the economy. There has been only modest reduction in the budget deficit.’
It looks like the BBC are very selective about which parts of Cable’s article they examine.
Talk about ‘Serious damage will be done to industry……in his department they had reached the point where further savings would do enormous damage to science and universities. ‘ and it is reported….talk about cutting NHS or schools and it is downplayed and the consequences of any cuts are left unsaid.
The BBC…”laying Cables” since 1979.
Where I come from, this is squeezing out a run of turds like a sausage machine might do.
Seems apt!
They are so BBC. When they are not fighting the result of the last election, they are fighting to influence the result of the next.
Perhaps William Hill has odds on Cable as Chancellor in a Lib-Lab Coalition? Stranger things have happened, in our current “post-normal politics”. Mustn’t let him become “damaged”.
Good pic of Cable above.
Reminds me of that Nazi dentist in Marathon Man.
“Is it safe”?
He looks like a dirty old man to me.
I see the BBC ‘s political correspondent Stephanie Flanders is on the case. She used to do economics but that when wrong so she now does politics. So the OBR/Cameron dispute and the Vince Cable issue are perfect for her floundering.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21724864?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
She is also getting rather choosy on which of her posts comments are allowed…
‘ideological jihad against public spending’.
Ooh such metaphor… find yourself a new scriptwriter ya TOT (Tired Old Trot).
So BBC/NUJ?Guardian/Labour are allowed to be ideologically *for* public spending but no-one is allowed to be ideologically against it.
It did rather depress me the other day to hear a Tory Council ‘YES A TORY COUNCIL’ saying how they were trying to stop ‘the erosion of their tax base’.
Don’t get it do they.