'What cuts? My favourite two facts about British public spending are these. Housing benefit, probably the single most fraudulent and wasteful state handout ever invented, costs more each year than the Army and the Royal Navy combined.
And while Labour spent £600 billion (roughly £10,000 for every human being in this country) in their last year in office, the supposedly vicious cutter George Osborne plans to spend £692.7 billion (£11,500 per head) in 2014-15, after his alleged chainsaw massacre.'
LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1323227/PETER-HITCHENS-A-chainsaw-massacre--cost-cutters-end-spending-92bn-MORE.html
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