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and more http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34815792 No 10 said the prime minister believed it was possible reduce costs without affecting front-line, high-quality public services.

http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/8544624 You could not make this up.

No worries - needs as much profile as possible given press bias. If this was Corbyn he would be absolutely slaughtered for it...

:bounce: Re: Prime Minister in spat thread.

You stated earlier that a uniform Govt target was imposed. I merely pointed out that this wasn't the case. The fact that targets have been set without the PM understanding the details does not mean that Tory authorities in the rural SE were not favoured over deprived London and Northern...

I believe the 40% is average nationals cut rate. The cuts to Tory authorities in the rural SE were well below this level. Consequently it is feasible that other authorities were cut by up to ten times those amounts. The official stats are out there and don't appear to be disputed. It's politics...

There's no uniform target though: Councils in northern, urban cities and London boroughs with high levels of deprivation predominantly run by Labour saw their budgets cut by almost 10 times the amount lost by mostly Tory-administered authorities in rural southern England during the government's...

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/11/david-cameron-letter-cuts-oxfordshire