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Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

I also quite like "Labour isn't working", which applied then and applies now. Like some giant fiscal doughnut, yesterday's Budget had a gaping hole in the middle of it where there should have been a proper comprehensive spending review. If we look at table A1 in the Red Book—a table of Budget measures—there are great blank spaces where a spending review normally sits. The Government simply cannot tell us what they are planning to do in 2011-12, despite all the information and all the resources available to them. Is there anything more risible than the Government's explanations as to why they cannot provide the spending review? They tell us that it would impossible to do this in March because of the uncertain state of the economy, but we can apparently have it in October—yet this has nothing to do with the fact that there is going to be an election in May. They really are taking the public for complete fools.