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Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 3
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Originally Posted by Slyder
Out of curiosity, where is the bnp during these "live" debates?
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Putting together their manifesto.....
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Mmmmmm - interesting.... BBC
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At his news conference this morning the prime minister said that he had had to flush out Tory promises to maintain benefits for pensioners and that "It is right to ask questions and to get answers".
Taking this as an invitation I asked him to tell the electorate "the scale of the spending cuts that you will introduce if you are re-elected and to give the public some indication of what they will mean for ordinary families?"
Gordon Brown responded by listing the figures set out in the Budget for, amongst other things, efficiency savings, and then to illustrate his point he claimed that plans to pay child benefit over the internet "will save £1bn in the administration of child benefit" (see full transcript below).
Thanks to the Economic Editor of the FT, I can now reveal that the annual administrative cost of child benefit is, in fact, just £74m.
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