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Gordon Brown is whistling in the dark

At last a government minister has admitted that spending cuts are inevitable after the next election, even as Gordon Brown still tries to pretend otherwise. Despite the talk in the media of green shoots, last week’s OECD report gave the grimmest...

Published 27 Jun 2009 12:34 PM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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Does anyone in government actually know how to cut spending?

Andrew Rawnsley has a piece in today’s Observer covering similar themes to my post last week; that whoever wins the next election will have to make savage spending cuts, that it makes no sense to ring-fence the NHS from these cuts and that politicians...

Published 21 Jun 2009 10:43 PM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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Only doctors should be allowed to profit from the NHS, says the BMA

I heard on the radio this morning that the BMA wants to eliminate the private sector from the NHS. Blimey, I thought, does that mean that all doctors are going to become direct employees of the NHS and stop doing private work using NHS facilities? Don’t...

Published 20 Jun 2009 5:55 PM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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Strikes – time to bone up on the law again

Sorry for the lack of posts here this week. As I explained a while ago, I’m involved in a big corporate re-organisation at the moment and, as those of you with experience of such things will know, when you’re not in meetings you’re sitting...

Published 19 Jun 2009 7:42 PM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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Public spending: The Tories are being dishonest too

For a moment last week it looked as though Andrew Lansley was in deep trouble. He did something that, in David Cameron’s Tory party, counts as a cardinal sin. He came dangerously close to making a policy announcement. However, the Tory spin machine...

Published 14 Jun 2009 1:35 PM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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Gordon should stay – at least for now

This is all starting to get a bit silly. We have cabinet members resigning and calling for the Prime Minister to go, a group of Labour MPs doing the same and now the Guardian, Labour’s staunchest ally in the press, is having a hysterical fit of...

Published 5 Jun 2009 12:28 PM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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Experts cast doubt on Darling’s public sector cost savings

The day after the budget I expressed some doubts about Alistair Darling’s plan for public sector cost savings. It appears that I’m not the only sceptic. One of the Operational Efficiency Programme’s authors, former Logica CEO Martin...

Published 1 Jun 2009 12:31 PM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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Gordon Brown is whistling in the dark

Does anyone in government actually know how to cut spending?

Only doctors should be allowed to profit from the NHS, says the BMA

Strikes – time to bone up on the law again

Public spending: The Tories are being dishonest too

Gordon should stay – at least for now

Experts cast doubt on Darling’s public sector cost savings