"How we pay for the rest of the infrastructure is quite simple - it is on a spend to save basis," he said.
I badgered my mother for a pony on a daily basis, saving up every penny to buy it the accoutrements it needed – brand new head collar, grooming kit, hoof oil, saddle and bridle.
The government said the move would mean funding could be allocated on a longer-term basis, saving the taxpayer at least £2.6bn over the next 10 years.
So the ban on hunting minke whales can no longer be easily justified on the basis of saving the species.
For example, someone commuting part-time from Brighton to central London might save £1,722 a year, while, on the same basis, the saving from Cambridge to London could be as much as £1,814 a year.
"A potential obligation is not an independent basis for saving documents," said Mercer Bullard, who runs Fund Democracy, a mutual fund advocacy group at the School of Law at the University of Mississippi.
Dick Advocaat has been offered the Sunderland manager's job on a permanent basis after saving them from relegation while on a short-term deal to the end of the season.
Medicare will now be negotiating with plans on a different basis, thus saving part of that $500 billion.
Giving corporate handouts to companies on a case-by-case basis and saving jobs depending on which factory captures Trump's personal attention that day seems like a shoddy, piecemeal economic plan to say the least.
Stewart said the BFI was not there to decide which programmes deserved to be saved on the basis of quality – even Derek Batey's Mr & Mrs could be in there.
All this passion to save a few basis points continues under Brennan.
