There is no government money. There is taxpayers' money and there is borrowed money. Obnoxious wastrels such as Charlie Gilmour can riot but tax receipts of £548bn and public expenditures of £697bn means his misplaced sense of entitlement is unaffordable.There is no fairy gold. The money belongs to the people.

Look, I know he's come to deliver us from evil and all that, but really, Dave, sod off: Tory leader David Cameron has defended expenses claims for his second home and said he would do the job for "half the money, twice the money or no money". "Frankly, I love this job because I love doing public service, working for my constituents, trying to hold the government to account, hopefully one day leadi...

The Telegraph and Daily Mail report that the next Conservative government will "rewrite civil service contracts to include a new legally-binding "fiduciary responsibility to taxpayers"." Civil servants who are "judged to have failed to spend public money prudently will be...

Public money used to stop public having a greater say in policing - Telegraph.Don't ask whose money it is. Our public officials certainly don't think it's ours. Listening to "The World at One" as I drove along the M56 today,...

To obtain value for money from public spending, lessons must be learnt from both success and failure. Although there is some effective learning within departments, learning is still not as prioritised as much as it should be, according to a National Audit Office report.

Lord Mandelson overruled official advice and pushed ahead with the £400m car scrappage scheme even though he knew it was not an effective use of public money, a report by Whitehall's spending watchdog has found.

That would be Jerry Reed's "You make it, They take it" Income tax man’s a-knockin’ at my door And yellin’ money, money (money-money-money) Income tax man’s a-yellin’ for some more Money, money (money-money-money) [Chorus] ‘Cause when you make it they take it (money-money-money) You make it they take it (money-money-money) You make it they ta-a-a-ke it, they...

Public money has been squandered and the many cases in which there is a prima facie case of fraud must be investigated by the Crown Prosecution Service says Simon Heffer.

Money is still easy for the public sector. For all the talk of cuts, tight and tough public spending conditions and the need to rein in, the monetary easing has all been concentrated on providing huge sums of borrowed money for the public sector at interest

The National Audit Office report's assessment that more public money may be required in order to ensure value for money clashes with the government's determination to reduce both the deficit and debt