Steve George Osborne, David Laws and Vince Cable all made it clear yesterday that the initial £6.5 billion of cuts is only the initial amount of cuts. It is  less than a 1% cut in annual Government expenditure which is now running at over £700 billion per annum, of which about £160 billion is a deficit and therefore has to be paid for by borrowing. I would expect Government expenditure to be cut by at least 5% or £35 billion this year. Government expenditure has more or less doubled in the past 10 years. Are the public services twice as good ?

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Dismayed Lib Dem voters...	20/05/10 12:05:00	Conal Stewart
Phew! ...	20/05/10 13:20:00	Sarah Felstead
Re:Dismayed Lib Dem voters...	20/05/10 15:05:00	Vanessa Smith
Re:Dismayed Lib Dem voters...	20/05/10 18:08:00	David Giles
Re:Re:Dismayed Lib Dem voters...	21/05/10 17:58:00	Andrew Dakers
Re:Re:Dismayed Lib Dem voters...	21/05/10 21:33:00	Neil Chippendale
Re:Re:Dismayed Lib Dem voters...	23/05/10 13:19:00	Vanessa Smith
Re:Re:Re:Dismayed Lib Dem voters...	24/05/10 14:34:00	David Giles
Re:Re:Re:Re:Dismayed Lib Dem voters...	24/05/10 14:41:00	Vanessa Smith
Dismayed Lib Dem voters...	25/05/10 13:11:00	George Knox
Re:Dismayed Lib Dem voters...	25/05/10 14:29:00	Steve Taylor
Re:Re:Dismayed Lib Dem voters...	25/05/10 15:24:00	David Giles
Re:Re:Re:Dismayed Lib Dem voters...	25/05/10 16:36:00	Steve Taylor
Re:Re:Re:Re:Dismayed Lib Dem voters...	25/05/10 17:04:00	David Giles

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