Actually I DO begrudge paying for everyone else's children. My view is that, if they can't afford to bring up their own children, they shouldn't have had them in the first place. It's surely not too much to expect couples to be responsible with regard to the frequency and timing of their reproduction?

P.S. always enjoy reading your blog – good sound common sense. All lefties should be forced to read it.

The stage at which government spending was needed for real welfare solutions is long over & an ever greater amount of government spending is going into regulating the productive part of the economy out of existence (we have 200,000 Health & Safety enforcers which partly explains why building projects like Crossrail, the Dome & the new Forth Bridge cost 13 times the actual building costs), repealing the laws of physics (windmills subsidies) & nannyism (smoking ban, chips in your bin to make sure you aren't using it & this).

So long as governement is permitted more money it has to use it for something.

This is not original here but I am putting it up as a rule of thumb when considering whether spending in any department should increase. Sometimes it should but the working assumption should be against.

He on the other hand; I believe is a secret Tory living in fear of said wife.

After debating what 42% of GDP has bought us, he tentively put forward health and education.

True, virtually impossible to fail any exams these days and grade A's are every where. Aparently, waiting lists are down at the local NHS Trust too.

Oh' how we laughed……………………

Pumping money into nationalized banks whilst having no measure of influence to make sure they do the right thing with it ( eh ? ) you mean we can't tell Northern Rock what to do ?

Giving away the £9 billion to utility companies which they paid us to start with when buying said utility companies from the taxpayers ( that sounds like we've gave our money away and our utility companies ) –

But there's more though isn't there ?
We have Trident, armed forces and updated military equipment because the other stuff is full of sand ( I mean you can't plan for that if you're fighting in a desert unless you have a brain in your head of course ), then he's gone and ordered those aircraft carriers which even the navy say are not needed ( ? ) – Noone knows what they will / could be for so insert yes into this box when asked is he stupid ( ……… ).

Thank god there is an end to this nightmare ! Isn't there ?

Arten't I a lucky bastard? No, I feel that my money has been totally wasted and I feel very angry about that.

There is the £10 billion paid to the European Union each year in return for which, we get our servitude and the destruction of our agriculture and industry, the eradication of our (once) civil society and its replacement with snooping government inspectors.

Personally, I don't think it is worth it.

Chris Rowsby: "The right dismays."

Isn't that the truth.

Perhaps the motorways are empty and prescriptions are free up there.???

It would be really good to know where every penny was spent.

Surely, Its not what governments spend it on but how they spend it. Ie Computer systems that dont work, Helicopters that dont fly, expensive court cases which are lost, endless re-organisations etc etc.