The difference between Labour & the Coalition is £5 billion

[niceguy2]

According to NewsNight 3min20

the difference between Labour & Tory/Coalition spending plan cuts is about £5 billion out of £160 trillion. In short, not very much at all.

So isn't it highly hypocritical of Labour to be claiming the coalition plans are all doomed and we're all going to sink when they'd be doing virtually exactly the same thing?

Fraser Nelson (4:05) says that Alistair Darling planned a 2.2% cut to departmental spending whilst Osbourne is making a 3% cut. Hardly worth all the arguing in Parliament about is it? Why can't all parties work together for the common good rather than Labour trying to score points?

Erm, maybe because NONE of the political parties are acting for the common good anyway? They are ALL acting for their own good anyway. Sod the rest of us commoners...

Of course Labour's being hypocritical. I'm disappointed, even if I'm not surprised. Thought they might be big enough to work together with the coalition to get the country out of the hole it's currently in and that people like Frank Field were leading the way. But they all appear to be following Ed Ball's tactics of raspberry-blowing from the sidelines instead. Childish and contemptuous.

go to three good economists and you will get 3 different answers. Likewise
doctors and lawyers. The best you will get is intelligent guesswork. And we all quote the experts who agree with us. (Human nature?)