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you missed "poorly briefed". its a 6 page document, i doubt he personally researched and wrote every paragraph. so yes very much out of touch. seems politians dont seem to understand and work through the consequences of their ideas.

true. however even at this current rate the debt will still increase another 90bn this year and £75bn next. we still borrowing more, and not yet even close to the debt repayment plan (which we'll deal with by inflation in the end)

did you read the article - Oxford complaining of the 37% cut to the government grants. i rather thought that was the point, that they arent even discriminating in favour of their own, setting targets without understanding the details. aka spreadsheet managment. meanwhile a 10% cut to overseas...

10 times? really. they cut 40% over the last parliament. 10x would be a 400% cut, clearly not possible. if in monetry terms, if Oxford cut 72m then thats 720m cut in a Labour council. more than the total cumulative cuts. so they havent seen budgets cut 10 times more.

i recall a while back reading something similar concerning Kensington borough. they've been saving, cutting expediture and rationalising for years, so there little to cut. meanwhile nearby boroughs are not run as efficiently and have significant scope for funding cuts, their largese over time...