David Cameron devoted all six questions to a simple theme: Gordon Brown lied to the House of Commons last week when he said capital expenditure was rising every year to the Olympics. As we pointed out on Coffee House at the time, the figures are falling (see the graph above).
Brown’s strategy is to think no one will try to bog him down in detail so he freely can give out his Brownies – which include, but are not restricted to, outright lies. Brown was, of course, pathologically unable to admit he got anything wrong. (Even now, in private, he won’t admit that the gold sale was a mistake – something is just wired up wrongly inside his head.) Cameron kept at it, as he tried to develop the argument from “10% Tory cuts” into “Brown lies”.
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