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Vince Double-Bill: PBR video response and LibLink Times article

By NewsHound | Published 10th December 2009 - 11:05 am

Here’s the video response Lib Dem shadow chancellor Vince Cable recorded yesterday in response to Alistair Darling’s Pre-Budget Report yesterday. (It is him, promise: you can make out the outline of his hat in the evening gloom – it might be worth filming Vince nearer a street-lamp next time.)

(Hat-tip: the Lib Dems’ ACT website).

Vince also appeared in yesterday’s Times, which the Voice failed to cover yesterday, arguing that Alistair Darling would have done better to model his PBR on one of his predecessors, Roy Jenkins. …

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Vince on the PBR: “A good budget for bingo and boilers but not much else.”

By The Voice | Published 9th December 2009 - 3:00 pm

Here’s what Lib Dem shadow chancellor Vince Cable had to say in response to Alistair Darling’s Pre-Budget Report statement:

What we needed was a national economic plan but what we got was a weak party manifesto. There has never been a deficit like this and we need a sensible and coherent plan for dealing with it.

“The Chancellor has ducked the hard choices on spending and cuts. Instead of facing up to reality he has chosen to move the goal posts by relying on fanciful growth forecasts. He could have used this Budget to make the tax system fairer. But

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