Brown has just given a speech this morning emphasising public expenditure cuts and, in what is a huge victory for the campaign by the Taxpayers’ Alliance, he is promising to crack down on public sector fat cats. Gordon also claims we are entering a new era where we will be able to freely access government data – Googling government. Guido has heard that from that the Tories.
The truth is Gordon can’t credibly claim to be the architect of a future of open government and fiscal responsibility.
Drill down and what is he promising? £3 billion in annual cuts represents less than ½% of government expenditure. Gordon is temperamentally incapable of taking action of the magnitude required:
Gordon’s big government bureaucracy overspends by some £3 billion weekly (‘the deficit’ is the difference between tax income and government expenditure). Gordon is just tinkering at the edges…