“We can do this the easy way or the hard way” Cameron said on Monday – and today, Brown finally agreed to do it the easy way. He seems to have dropped his Big Lie – that public spending will rise after the election. He’s doing it in stages, so today we had the rather wonderful claim that in 2013/14 it will rise “by 0%”. How does he produce this? We at CoffeeHouse aim to serve, and reveal the trick behind his latest Brownie here:
I gather there was a discussion about this in Cabinet yesterday where Brown was basically told to drop his lie because no one believes it and no minster wants to repeat it (I’m trying to get more info, and will update you as and when). Now, no-one should claim victory – Brown could always revive the lie later.
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