Excellent interview with Nick Clegg

Only just stumbled upon this now, Nick Clegg at his best.

Great moment at 12:00-14:00 minutes in.

Nick really fires up my ideological engines when he speaks so passionately about Liberalism, as he does in this interview. He makes us proud.

Next years budget cuts to central government departments

I've crunched the numbers and extracted the % change in central gov departmental budgets, as sourced from the Treasury (page 83).

So, there will be cuts for 15 of the 25 central government departments next financial year. This represents an average of -5.75% across all departments. Factor in inflation and that figure looks even worse.

Everyone knows that whoever is in government next year will have to make cuts - but Brown insists that under Labour there will be no cuts. The Treasury doesn't agree.

[Hat tip to Guido Fawkes]