The small print shows where all the damage lies
October 21st, 2010Yesterday I posted: read the small print very, very carefully. I hope you did, because only then can you grasp how deeply toxic this Spending Review is. The damage is largely contained in a section in the middle of Osborne’s speech (in columns 958-9 of Hansard 20 October) which he gabbled incomprehensibly to conceal the pain he knew he was causing, in a speech that was the most obfuscatory and politically rigged and misleading of any that I can ever remember in the House. Equally disturbing, when you look at the Treasury hand-outs afterwards to discover the truth that Osborne was at such pains to conceal, the income distributional graphs (Spending Review 2010, Cm 7942, p.98) are profoundly deceptive as the very small print on the next page reveals. (more…)
