Darling tries to hide Labour cuts from voters
Darling to hide Labour cuts
The Times reports that Chancellor Alistair Darling is not going to have a Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) this year, I assume, because it would expose the huge Brownies of his boss Gordon Brown. According to The Times
The move is designed to wrong-foot the Conservatives who have conceded that they will cut spending if they return to government.
The delay in producing detailed figures will anger the government’s critics, who have accused Gordon Brown of lying over Labour’s true intentions. This will be seen as a further example of government dishonesty.
Of course this is all part of Gordon Brown’s Honest and Transparent government. As my better half commented on Political Betting last night
They deserve to lose the election for this reason alone. This is a classic example of this government’s incompetence and lack of leadership in a nutshell. Way back in the Autumn of last year, I warned that Brown’s last and only chance of salvaging his premiership, was to level with the voters. If he had taken the lead back then, given an honest appraisal of the country’s finances, and declared that he would take the tough action needed to rebalance the books, he might, just might have got some of the credit and looked and sounded like a leader for the tough times ahead. As it is, he has made himself look and sound shifty and dishonest, lacking in any ability to take tough decisions. He isn’t a leader, and has left that vacuum to be filled by the so called novice and his team. Big mistake.
I could not agree more.
The Times also has another interestingly titled article.
Tell us the truth, Mr Brown, in which they try to answer the question
Would he lie to us? Extracting a candid answer from the prime minister isn’t easy, especially on public spending
The answer of course is Yes, often and in anyway he thinks he can blacken the name of the Tories. The trouble is that nobody is now believing Gordon.
So why would we expect honesty from Gordon on his spending plans in the run up to the election. He knows that they are a disaster with UK PLC on the brink of bankruptcy, so far in debt that it will be our children who will have to pay off his debt.
Instead of the CSR all we are likely to get will be vague pledges over schools and health-care in the chancellor’s prebudget report, but silence on areas such as defence, transport and crime where the axe will have to fall.
To replace the CSR we will get the Gordon’s laughably entitled document, Building Britain’s Future, which will offer such things as a “guarantee” to all parents that if their children fall behind in maths or English they will be provided with private one-to-one tuition paid for by the state.
This is the part of Gordon’s 999th relaunch as a new person after the last attempted coup when he promised to “change” so he will, this week, attempt to open a new front in the debate over spending with the launch of his long awaited “national plan” for public services.
This will, as usual, fall flat on its face within a day or two of the launch, forgotten and unloved, and become forever part of the waste that has been the trademark of Gordon Brown period in government.
Finally I can only assume with this abandonment of the CSR that Labour’s final budget will be the usual pre-election giveaway, one wonders what they will have left to giveaway by next March.
Darling tries to hide Labour cuts from voters – Times Online.
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