The BBC has always been against ‘austerity’ and spending cuts and things haven’t changed as in the week before Osborne’s Autumn Statement the BBC ran a spoiler clearly intended to put the case for spend, spend, spend.
Wake Up To Money invited on a guest a day to give us their verdict on spending cuts….not one thought they were a good idea.
Vince Cable tells us the government’s planned cuts could hit UK economic growth.
Former senior civil servant, Sir Richard Mottram, criticises planned spending cuts.
Adam Parsons and Mickey Clark look ahead to the publication of a major report into the collapse of HBOS in 2008. They also hear from one of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s economic advisers [No prizes for guessing her opinion]
With a week to go before Chancellor George Osborne announces the outcome of the spending review Adam Parsons speaks to former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin about his experience of having to make similar major cuts.[Despite making ‘similar cuts’ he was strongly against further ones]
With the Chancellor due to deliver his spending review next week, Businesswoman and former Dragon on TV’s Dragons’ Den Hilary Devey tells Adam Parsons that further cuts could be going too far and investment is needed to maintain growth.
Ah yes, that old classic…too far too fast and ‘investment’ is needed to encourage growth. Plan B anyone?
The BBC lined up a series of critics of government cuts and still claims it is not biased? Pull the other one.
Handed a tastefully Christmas gift-wrapped sharpened stake by Robert Chote Esq and the rest of those good people at the Office of Budget Responsibility, Georgie Boy proceeded to shove it right up ….. of Chairman Corbyn’s most excellent Shadow Chancellor, the rest of Liebour’s Dad’s Army, the Institute of Fiscal Studies (that most excellent and utterly unbiased “think tank”), the Media, and in particular Peston & co at Al beeb. The cumulative effect was truly joyous to behold as the assembled company stared with glassy eyes at their carefully prepared pre-cooked tirades and the cry went up “We’ve got nothing !”. [All save the most excellent Shadow Chancellor who had had the foresight to equip himself with the collected musings of a mass-murdering Chinese communist.]
A few days on and after the tantrums, Al beeb and co have now discovered that “austerity’ was not so bad after all. Georgie Boy pulled out a plum but maybe his new profligate ways will set us on the road to hell- after all we can always point to the October monthly figure for Government borrowing (well, until November’s figures come out)…. and as long as we ignore a significant uplift in the minimum wage and increases in income tax allowances …….the future looks bleak. Oh how Al Beeb must be praying for the economic downturn to come at last.
Just like election night when the exit polls were announced the experts with their carefully prepared scripts were useless as were the lot on Wednesday. With out the cuts to the police budget they had nothing to say and even good old Andrew Neil was lost for words.
Quite right. And I remain convinced that those polls were deliberately manipulated not to reflect public opinion but to ‘nudge’ it in the desired direction. In particular, to do down UKIP. Recent events surrounding YouGov and its CBI purchased pro-EU poll have done nothing but reinforce that opinion.