Time for Government to pay for their election vote-buying

PARENTS will be well aware of this scenario: You give a child some pocket money to last a week and by Wednesday it’s all gone on sweets and nothing to show for it.

That’s all well and good when you’re dealing with a child under 10, but it’s hardly the behaviour you’d expect from an adult, not least a Government Minister.

But looking at the departmental expenditure for the first half of this year, you can only draw the conclusion that Ministers did indeed spend profligately and to hell with the consequences.