A "thread of dishonesty" runs through Brown's Premiership

In his regular press conference, David Cameron attacked Gordon Brown for not being straight with people about Labour’s public spending plans.

He accused the Prime Minister of showing “a lack of respect" for the British public by claiming Labour are going to increase spending on public services when their own figures show it will fall.

David said there was “a thread of dishonesty running through (Gordon Brown's) Premiership” - and warned:

"For all their talk of a fresh start, of openness, and of transparency, of a genuine dialogue between government and people, Labour just cannot relinquish the comfort blanket of spin and deception."

David stressed that he and George Osborne have been honest about the need to sort out Britain's public finances – and he made clear:

“The cupboard is bare; tough decisions must be made; cuts cannot be avoided - whoever wins the next election.”

David also discussed the issue of MPs’ second jobs. He said that from the end of December the Shadow Cabinet will give up their outside interests – but he stressed that these interests can be “a good thing” as they bring additional expertise and experience to the House of Commons.

"Of course it is possible to have outside interests and be a good MP. As long as the public have all the information - and they should - they can judge in each case."

To this end, David announced that he was publishing information about the Shadow Cabinet's current outside interests.

Today's Dishonest Budget

Today we saw a Dishonest Budget from Labour, based on optimistic growth forecasts already contradicted by the IMF, and containing tax rises on the many not the few.

Watch my reaction to the Budget in this exclusive film.

Cam & Ozzy: Stan & Olly

As may be quite obvious, I am a bit of a Tory. I detest everything about the New Labour movement that there is to hate and I do so with a passion. Endless failure and scandal after scandal has marked the government since Blair first stepped into Downing Street and I will be glad to see back of them covered in tomatos or spoiled root veggies when they eventually go.

Their going however is now seeming to be potentially much further away than I was beginning to think and rejoice over. David and George, the fabulous bluo duo are actually doing worse in the polls at the moment than the architect of our financial woes, Gordon Brown and his Darling poodle. How can that be? How is it that everyone trusts Gordon? This is a man who has been in bed with the city as the recipient of good hard fiscal screwing on behalf of the British people since his rise to power with Blair. This is a man who has spent all the money he ever had and then got himself...well...actually us, into serious serious debt. How is it that David and his team can't capitalise properly on this situation and bury the New Labour Abomination once and for all?

I am beginning to think that there is nothing worth-while left in politics or in deed politicians any more if political capital can't be taken against a government who has managed its own and the country's finances and resources in such an appaling way. I can't help but think that perhaps David doesn't have what it takes and that perhaps he couldn't organise an anti-social alcohol fuelled rampage in Croydon, Romford or Wakefield city centre. I am beginning to think that there is a very strong chance that Labour might win a fourth term in office.....and that really really makes me mad!!! Bring on Boris the Giant Killer and lets have done it once and for all.