Via the Taxpayers’ Alliance:
On Monday, Matthew Elliott and David Craig released their new book Fleeced! How we’ve been betrayed by the politicians, bureaucrats and bankers… and how much they’ve cost us, published by Constable. Fleeced! is the very first book to analyse the financial, fiscal and political crisis resulting from a decade spent under the stewardship of Gordon Brown and is a devastating indictment of Brown’s time as Chancellor and Prime Minister. The authors, who were the first to reveal the shocking truth about Brown’s overspending since 1997 in their previous books, show that in 12 years of New Labour around £1.5 trillion of taxpayers’ money has been squandered on an acceleration in profligate government spending fuelled by the economic boom; and around another £1.5 trillion has evaporated in the bust.
Fleeced! was given a big preview in the Daily Mail who summarised the key chapters, explaining how the authors arrived at the eye-watering total of £3 trillion for Gordon Brown’s mishandling of the economy. The release of Fleeced! and Brown’s £3 trillion con were also reported in:
The Sun, Labour blunders cost taxpayers £3 trillion
Daily Express, Brown the bungler has cost every person in Britain £50,000
Daily Mail, Brown’s mishandling of the economy has cost £50,000 for every person in Britain, according to new book
Daily Star, Bungler Brown has bled Britain dry
Daily Telegraph, Gordon Brown ‘wasted three trillion’
The Guardian, Comment Is Free: I see no wisdom, Mandelson
This is Money, Brown ‘cost us £50,000 each’ in tax
Press Association, ‘Brown cost taxpayers £3 trillion’
Matthew Elliott was interviewed on Sky Sunrise on Monday morning and on John Gaunt’s Suntalk radio show on Tuesday.
Fleeced! RRP £8.99, is now available in all good bookshops and on Amazon here
