Spending Review: Which departments fared the worst?

Why are they even bothering to keep the CLG why not just wind it up all together?and have rid of another labour creation so we can then go and waste millions on forming new departments and rebranding.

Opportunity missed on finally being able to modernise the MOD and cutting it back to our real place in the world and not some rose tinted neo imperialistic view.

Why are International Development & Cabinet Office exempt?

Both International Development & EU should be CUT COMPLETELY -

over 5-10 years these alone would pay off the debit!

It is not a question of rose tinted imperialism. If we get attacked by any sizable enemy we shall need to feed ourselves.Noone who does not remember WW2 and how near we were to defeat by starvation as well as direct assault should talk about reducing our armed forces. Unfortunately our chancellor and prime minister were not even born. The opportunity they missed was to put a penny on income taxes and retain our already dangerously depletes armed forces.

It is not only our military safety that the defence cuts imperil. Whenever you cancel a project or cut a number of skilled workers, those skills are quickly lost, and so are the markets abroad that depend on them. You cannot sell high tech products to people if you cannot demonstrate usage of nearly similar products made by you. Yet we cannot compete with the cheap eastern

low and medium technology products which swamp our own domestic markets.

The world will not always continue to supply their products - including food - if we cannot give them products of real value in return.

Once skills are lost - we will never get them back, nor will we get the markets back.

cutting the HMRC staff numbers will only further increase tax evasion by the wealthy and corporate companies. This will then further reduce tax income.

A freedom of information request to HMRC has already stated that the HMRC estimates that the above group accounts for an annual $70 billion tax evasion. Vodafone alone was let off this year from $6billion of tax evasion .

Why has Scotland got off so lightly. They already have a bigger share of the cake and this make it even bigger still. We English will end up paying for even more Scottish waste.

There is only one department that earns money for the government - HMRC. The rest just spend it. If there was one department crying out for an INCREASE in its budget, it was HMRC. Increasing their resources would catch the skivers, dodgers and tax evaders that the rest of us are paying for.

Hip Hooray for James Keble not living in the past but knowing what has gone on then and up until now should prompt the Gov and business to give things more thought.