(Interrupted slightly on that post.)

One of the things that leapt out was that they seem to forget Margaret Thatcher's oft misquoted dictum "There is no such thing a society." In context, she was saying neither 'society' nor 'the government' has any money of its own - it is all your taxation, one way or another. And that applies as much to the government statements about VAT here as any benefit expenditure.

But I will read the papers more thoroughly in a week or two.