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.

In spite of its grand opening on 28th June, the woeful financial situation at The Public in West Bromwich persists according to this morning’s Express and Star. Whoever thought that this project would cease guzzling money from the public purse...

Now here's a marvellous example of Government wasting money on IT projects and for once, actually admitting to it. In 2004, the Department of Work and Pension embarked on a project called the Benefits Processing Replacement Programme and the contractor for the project was IBM. In 2006-07 the project was abandoned having cost the taxpayer £143 million. Now here's the amusing thing, according to th...

Nick Clegg has today launched the Lib Dems’ ‘Ask the People in the Know’ project inviting public sector workers to help identify ways in which government can cut out waste while protecting services in order to save taxpayers’ money. Anyone working in the public sector can submit their ideas on where money can be saved at

A £630 million project to regenerate former mining areas, funded by public money, has no way of knowing how many new jobs have been created, according to a highly critical report by MPs.

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,...

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...

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

There is no such thing as Government Money. There is only Taxpayers money. I think it is time that this fact was brought home to many of the companies and organisations now in receipt of handouts, bailouts, support funds and loans being doled out by the Government in amounts never before dreamt of. The total amount of money that this government has given and guaranteed to the Banks, with the full ...

To many people the bank share purchases by the government is the last straw. They see it this way: the government takes money off us in taxes, gives the money to the banks, who then might lend some of it back to us for interest and a fee if we