YOUR anonymous columnist, The Fly in the Ointment, says it’s time to end austerity.

Research by The Taxpayers Alliance, using official data, says that public expenditure as a whole has decreased by just 0.2 per cent in real terms since 2009-2010, the time of the last Labour government.

He conveniently omits to tell us that the government is having to make difficult spending decisions while reducing the deficit and funding public services because Labour trashed the economy. If we ever get a Labour government again they will make the same mistakes and the British people will again pay the price.

Brian Partridge Cuddington