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

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.

The TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA) today criticised the Government for using taxpayers' money as an easy way out, and urged them to explore other solutions that would limit the amount of our money at risk. With taxpayers' money on the line,...

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...

Unheeded by most, Tony Woodley of the T&G Unite is still crying in the wilderness, and what a plan he has got: "Our priority must be using that public money to save jobs and skills, not to fund redundancy". By public money, he means money extorted from the productive parts of the economy, I think. "We desperately need to see creative, strategic action to save jobs, such as job sharing and ...

It appears that the Glorious Successor may soon have to save the world once more. The banks, which have absorbed almost forty thousand million pounds of taxpayers' money in the past few months, in return for being politely asked to start lending money again, have decided they'd rather just take the money, thank you very much. Accordingly, "options presented to the Treasury are thought to include

People will have new powers to petition their local councils on how taxpayers' money is spent under Government plans.

Amid the dark clouds of renewed financial chaos which have descended now the markets have decided that a few hundred thousand million in taxpayers' money isn't quite enough for them, and the likelihood that millions of taxpayers will lose their jobs in the near future, there are one or two silver linings. The first is that Gordon Brown, thanks to his consistent support for private profit over

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...

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) goes through the motions of indignation about the waste of taxpayers' money on the futile project to centralise fire brigade control rooms. "A minimum of £469 million" has been "wasted". That's so far. The government is to throw a further £84.8m at trying to retrieve some value from the mess. Meanwhile Eight of the purpose-built regional co...