The post you are reporting:
From Sky News:
"The Government's austerity plans involve slashing the majority of Government department budgets by a third, a leading think tank has warned."
The Chancellor has gone bezirk!
It continues:
"The Institute for Fiscal Studies said that in order to fulfil the plans laid down in the Autumn Statement the Government would have to slash the budgets of its non-protected departments - everything but health, schools and international development - by a further 16% in real terms in the three years to 2017-18, or 30% since 2010."
He is out of touch:
"The IFS said that such cuts to departmental budgets, including police, local government, defence, environment, transport were 'almost inconceivable'."!
"The think tank urged the Government to commit to doing some of the work through tax rises rather than spending cuts."
Barry, say what you will about cutting deeper and faster and reducing taxes, the top economists are all saying the opposite!
Give up! The Chancellor has lost, the masses will not vote them in again.
The Government has lost the backing of the economists, not just this particular think tank (IFS), but of all the officially acknowledged leading economists, including the IMF, and when that happens, it means they will get nowhere near an election victory.