Chris

Nope. I'm simply insisting that you compare apples with apples.

Each one of these local reorganisations, cuts or whatever deserves scrutiny in its own right.

That is more difficult to achieve if you keep trying to make the story something it isn't.

The top-line budget figure has not been cut. So far, the election pledge has held.

Now, how about you stop carrying on like happy hour at the branch Labour club and discuss the issue on its own terms?