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Last night the BBC TV news had an item about the cuts in the education
budget. The story was that the government had decided to cut millions
of pounds from the last government's proposed education budget, but no
mention was made of the fiscal reasons

The *alleged* fiscal reasons.

That we need billions of pounds of cuts is just a political view.
To say that's why they were necessary would be buying the Tories'
line. The truth is that they are taking advantage of the recession
to pretend that the country has to balance its books as if it were
an individual, and excuse the cuts in services that they couldn't
get away with otherwise. Unfortunately the BBC is so right wing
that it doesn't tell us that.

-- Richard