Spending Cuts

The Chancellor, Mr Darling, has 'admitted' that expenditure cuts will be more savage than those made by Mrs Thatcher. Cue lefty outrage.

The actual figures are below, on the left Gross Domestic Producct, on the right public spending £bn


1979 199 85.2
1980 233 103.9
1981 256 116.1
1982 281 128.0
1983 307 132.7
1984 330 140.5
1985 362 150.9
1986 389 158.6
1987 429 164.6
1988 478 173.6
1989 525 179.9
1990 570 200.9

As you can see, public spending rose inexorably, year after year, under Mrs Tatcher's leadership.

The question I wuld like answered is why the BBC, a supposedly unbiased organisation, is promulgating this nonsense.