I've figured it out - ML Bonwick-Jones (Mrs) is in actual fact a satirical comedy genius. The evidence is in this quote:

"Just one more thing Standard and poor just after the Chancellor's speech reaffirmed our AAA rating, but have said this could change if the goverment were to stray from our austerity measures, Who is right Ed Balls or the world's Leading credit agency?"

As any fule no, the 'world's leading credit agency' is a hamfisted enforcer for hedge funds and other jackal traders. I'd give serious consideration to the opinion of Kermit the frog before that of Standard & Poors.

Robert taggart

Is that the best you can do after a day, oh my what a bore you are, you are almost a liebore!

Ed Ball's is the Last gasp of a failing model, and that last gasp is him trying to re-write Labour's past, and his last biggest betrayal to the decent and hard-working voters who always support Labour it not just saying there is money left once they spent it all but to say thing's are not that bad they can be done my way and that you can continue to spend your way out of dept building a new economy on sand shows how much he has always put politics before country and ed Miliband should replace this man as soon as possible.
Just one more thing Standard and poor just after the Chancellor's speech reaffirmed our AAA rating, but have said this could change if the goverment were to stray from our austerity measures, Who is right Ed Balls or the world's Leading credit agency?

One thing that confuses me about George Osbourne: he keeps claiming that his "Plan A" is on course to deliver the required savings, but (a) growth forecasts are continually downgraded, which probably means less tax income than expected over the parliament's term, (b) he keeps finding mysterious pots of cash to splash out, so presumably the reduction in spending isn't as great as he hoped. In the light of (a) and (b), how can the deficit reduction programme still be on course, unless he plans to find significant further savings on top of those he's already announced?

As for Labour, admittedly they were spending a lot of money, but the main growth in the deficit was due to the collapse in taxation revenue when the recession hit. I can't help but wonder if Labour had spent less and create a net surplus in the 'boom' years, would the Conservatives have congratulated them on saving up for a rainy day, or would they have moaned that the government was being miserly by collecting lots of taxpayers' money but not spending it (and thus calling for lots of tax cuts)?

"re-branding old political failures"

William Hague (amongst others) was warning that a one-size-fits-all monetary policy across all of Europe would fail, and that it was vitally important that Britain keep monetary sovereignty. He was correct. Calling that an "old political failure" is sophistry of a higher order.

For the love of mike Robert Taggart, give it a rest yiou weren't funny oh so long ago and you are still so unfunny!

AlastairX yes Hauge was right but it was Gordon Brown who refused to join when being pressed by Blair and Ken Clarke.

Didn`t Gideon and Flashman promise to match Labours spending in 2007?, he must have forgot about that, which is an easy thing to do when you`re an out of touch Tory HYPOCRITE!!, i don`t recall Flashman and Gideon screaming at labour to stop spending when they saved the banks?, or keeping people in jobs?, Wasn`t it the Tories in power during Black Wednesday?, Gideon must`ve forgot that!, and wasn`t Flashman lamonts special advisor during this Humiliation?, very easy to forget when you have selective memory syndrome!, especially when it`s not politically conveniant!!, Stick to popping one out into your magazines Gideon, that`s all you`re fit for you incompetent squeaky voiced inbred!!.

in terms of gids saying he would have matched spending during the prolifigate years that's just politics.

alistair darling had a challenging deficit reduction plan but we can never out-do an osborne deficit reduction plan - even if osborne came out tomorrow and said he was going to increase the deficit by increasing spending - we would always say we would spend more.

personally if you ask me that's bad politics and balls is the worst type, nothing he says is credible - i would bring back darling tomorow.

The English are not so stupid as they look. (name that film?)

Its a fixed term parliament. For all his talk, George Osborne will be measured by the British people on the elimination of the deficit in one parliament -- his big promise.

David Cameron will be measured on his promise to cut the deficit not the NHS -- his big promise.

Nick Clegg has already failed. Tuition fees -- his big promise.

For all their post-hoc rewriting of history, they cannot hide from breaking such big promises.

2013 will be a bad time to be a Tory (or proxy Tory aka LibDem).