For years the BNP have attacked this government for its profligate spending. We’ve known and told of the billions wasted on failed NHS Information Technology projects, the billions wasted on the white elephant known as the Olympic Games, the millions wasted on the Millennium Dome, the millions it costs us taxpayers to keep people in pointless jobs – smoking ban enforcement officers, household refuse inspectors, race equality officers (everywhere, regardless of whether ethnics even live in the area), the never-ending ‘jobs for the boys’ in the form of useless quangos etc., etc., but we’ve never had a working figure of the actual total cost.

To the rescue comes the author, David Craig, whose new book is entitled ‘Squandered’. The amount of money needlessly wasted by this government over the last ten years or so is an eye-watering £1,229,100,000,000 (£1.229 trillion) – or £20,500 for every man, woman and child over the last ten years. Now, as even Labour hasn’t got around to taxing kids yet, then the figure works out at £30,750 for every man and woman. And as it’s only the working men and women who actually pay it, the personal figure is going to be far higher than that for us working folk. And this is money that could have gone into our bank accounts to offset soaring mortgage, food and petrol costs! This is what New Labour calls ‘prudent’ economics – and, to my knowledge, does not even include the £1.4 million per hour (yes, per hour; and even more now that we‘ve given up part of our rebate) that this nation is taxed to fund the equally inefficient EU.

And you thought the £50 billion of our money used to bail out Northern Rock was bad – a mere bagatelle, my friends; a mere bagatelle!

Sun report here .