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Hamish Macdonell: Failure to make cuts would be the real scandal

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Published Date: 21 April 2009
THERE was definitely something reassuring about the story in one of the weekend tabloids – "vice madam" to "name and shame four high-flying Tories", it claimed. Suddenly it seemed as if everything was right with the world, political scandals were back where they were supposed to be.
We had moved on from MPs and their expenses to the more familiar territory of Tories, bondage sessions and call girls.

After all, this is what political scandals are supposed to be about, affairs which cause acute embarrassment to the guilty but n...



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  • Last Updated: 20 April 2009 9:15 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Hamish Macdonell
 
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Tynietiger,

21/04/2009 09:00:05
These cuts are solely due to the stupid 2.5% cut in VAT at a cost of £12 billion pounds.
The so called efficiency savings at Westminster level goes to UK Government, but the £1 billion cuts to Scottish government budget goes to Westminster UK government.

 

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