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Hello and welcome to more or less the program which uses numbers the way your

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In today's program, spending cuts, victims of terrorism and this.

Do you can see Tokyo!

The best and worst board games in the world. The statistics decide, although my children have their own ideas too.

But first, in the Chancellor's Autumn statement, which for some reason happened in December,

Mr Osborne announced that...

By 2019-20, Britain is now predicted to have a surplus of 23 billion pounds.

There seem to be near universal knowledge.

Could we stop the Christmas music please?

Thank you. There seem to be near universal acknowledgement that this plan

to achieve a surplus and to do so without raising taxes would involve big reductions in government spending, really big ones.

Massive, dramatic, devastating.

But then this week David Cameron said something that made those warnings seem completely misplaced.

It means reducing overall government spending by just 1% each year.

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