In this Pointmaker, Tim Morgan argues that despite the level of cuts being described as swingeing, savage or draconian, that they are, in fact, modest, considering the 53% real terms increase in government spending between 1999-2000 and 2009-10.
Media Impact:
- The Sunday Times: Relax: These cuts are just a scratch (£)
- The Daily Telegraph: Spending cuts have Boomtown Rats squealing, but America’s blues are a bigger threat
- City AM:Osborne’s cuts are relatively modest
- The Telegraph: Spending Review 2010: Whether shower or hurricane, George Osborne’s cuts will leave us cold
- The Financial Times: British people are terrified, by George (£)
- Conservative Home: George Bridges: The cuts will hurt, but the latest CPS analysis suggests spending will only return to 2009 levels
- Evening Standard: George Osborne’s spending review cuts ‘not savage but imperative’
- Guardian: George Osborne’s coming spending cuts are ‘modest’, says thinktank
- Public Service: Government cuts ”are actually modest”
