A letter a day to number 10. No 1,475 Sunday 26 June 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, There is a shit storm sweeping this country and why? Because too many politicians lie through their teeth and cannot be trusted to tell the time of day unless you’re standing next to Big Ben. That’s why. There is […]
Tag: Institute for Fiscal Studies
Death by a million cuts and that’s just the civil service
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,051 Tuesday 07 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) found that the George Osborne’s spending plans over 2015-2019 would be the “largest fiscal consolidation out of 32 advanced economies over the period”. The IFS warned that “Osborne will make the deepest cuts […]
Cameron, fluff and nonsense and where the rubber hits the road
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,028 Saturday 14 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, As the head of a government which all too often states that it cannot comment on individual cases, that does not seem to apply when that individual, in your words, “is a constituent of mine, he is a friend […]