The Boy Dave (C) starts his analysis well:

There are four key areas which are contributing most to this effect.
Taken individually these burdens hit people hard enough; put them
together and they really stifle day-to-day living.

First,
stealth taxation under Brown means taxes have risen by 81% — £9,000 per
family – while pay is up just 47%. Council tax alone has increased by
84%. People have a right to ask — just where has all this money gone?

Indeed, indeed. His solution?

And we need to see the proceeds of our economic growth being shared
between lower taxes and real increases in spending in areas such as
health, education and policing, so people get more take-home pay and
value for money in their public services.

There’s a rallying cry, eh? We won’t reduce taxation, which we all agree is too high. We won’t reduce spending, which we agree is being wasted.

Our “sort-it” website, found at http://www.sort-it.co.uk, will be following up
its recent initiative on combating personal debt by launching the “Live
life for less” campaign. This will offer all manner of advice on how to
lower your living costs on everything from energy bills to food.

No, we won’t put the bureaucracy on a starvation diet, oh no, don’t be silly. We’ll put you the people on a starvation diet so that you can still pay for the bureaucracy.

He does seem to have absorbed quite a lot from Polly, doesn’t he?