The increase in defence spending that the government was lying about yesterday is apparently being financed by cuts to a bloated civil service, again.
How the ultra efficient, austerity Tories have managed to allow the civil service to grow so much and why they haven’t done anything about it since covid is a mystery. Maybe they were saving all those non-jobs as a piggy bank they could raid in times of trouble?
Because they have smashed that piggy bank a few times now. First those savings from the firing of the millions of woke, holistic, HR, lesbian awareness counsellors was going to bring government borrowing down in five years time, and it was going to pay for cuts to NI announced in the budget too.
Commitments so large and so unfunded that the IFS and several other experts pointed out they were impossible. But now, hey presto, the government will slash those very same civil servant numbers and find another £75 billion for the defence of the realm.
And all this time the Beeb and all the other media outlets just let it ride. If Labour had suggested using one tenth of this money to feed starving orphans the Tories would have spent weeks accusing them of unfunded, reckless spending.
But for the Tories not a peep, not a serious bit of analysis, not a single realistic appraisal of these lies and fabrications.
It is so easy being blue.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
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And yet another piece of earth salting - in opposition the Tory shits and their attack-dog media chums will try and hold Labour’s feet to the fire about funding this nonsensical pledge which no one has the money for