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Listed below are comments made by pilsden between Wednesday, 1st July 2009 and Thursday, 20th August 2009.

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The black hole deepens 5:01pm on 20 Aug 2009 I just have to offer this link because it shows the mindset on expenditure.
http://dizzythinks.net/2009/08/cost-of-communities-clipart.html
Osborne sets out Tory agenda 3:23pm on 11 Aug 2009 By the way of nothing to do we the above,I was watching a recorded film and before it started there was a tv commercial on behalf of the NHS.This commercial 30 secs was about the eu health card and reminding people they could get one free.Whilst this is sensible surely travel advice is better handled by the travel industry and not from taxation . I wonder how many other pet projects exist, my CEO always said the more people the more they spend on unnecessary things.
Chancellor's warning 6:11pm on 07 Jul 2009 The truth is they might have to shorten their holidays because the budget was late as the staff were working on the G20 shindig .Which you will remember is about to be replayed in slow motion at the G8 with a reprise later in the year in Pittsburgh where they can rack up more air miles whilst saving the planet.
10p tax rebellion 6:07pm on 07 Jul 2009 Earlier the chancellor told Greg Pope and Frank Field that he would consider new measures in his autumn pre-Budget report.

Isn't that what he said last year
The PM uses the 'C' word: 'Cuts' 10:13pm on 01 Jul 2009 One last try and them I'm off again from bbc .
The problem is not just expenditure its revenue.The tax system as currently configured expects to get money from asset inflation (houses shares inheritance etc) It isn't going to be there people the goose is dead .So whoever has to sort this out (and I don't think the architect would ever change the design ) has no choice it's 5P on income tax and I don't know what that does to future growth other than it can't be good .
Good luck everyone!
The PM uses the 'C' word: 'Cuts' 9:57pm on 01 Jul 2009 I'll try again I recommend the FT Britain has sunk itself deep into a fiscal black hole .It tells you the tax increases necessary to fill the gap in our finances.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e8d6b4c6-659d-11de-8e34-00144feabdc0.html

If you are with GB I only want to know one thing where did all the money go
explain by proper variance analysis but I guess he may not know what that is
Honesty: The new battleground 4:38pm on 01 Jul 2009 I don't get why you lot are all hung up on cuts it's the tax that worries me,this is the first time I have seen it quantified

"A tax package to raise £70bn ($115bn, 82bn), probably the minimum required to stabilise Britains public finances, might put four points on the rate of income tax, take VAT to 20 per cent, freeze personal allowances and tax thresholds, add five points to corporation tax and collect a bit of extra revenue from the usual suspects such as alcohol, petrol and cigarettes."
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e8d6b4c6-659d-11de-8e34-00144feabdc0.html

In addition Brown got the expenditure wrong three times in PMQ's which must be a record!
http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/
Honesty: The new battleground 2:52pm on 01 Jul 2009 I went to the Coins database and it seemed I needed software and a server
things maybe a party may have but not me so am not sure what "freely" available means
Honesty: The new battleground 1:28pm on 01 Jul 2009 " Whitehall sources tell me that all the information in the COINS database is already in the public domain although they concede that you may have to spend time online collating it."
Try Googling it then you might find out what is necessary to gain Public access (doesn't mean that Tories couldn't spend the money to acquire the software)
The question is that if it is available why not provide it a manageable format.
What would Tories cut? 10:43am on 01 Jul 2009 Surely now the media should stop asking the Tories about cuts and simply focus on the Government.Quite frankly Nick you asking them without access to the detail is a bit like asking me to comment on your finances.Bet if I did the mods would be down on me!

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