£9.3m = 408 nurses.

Dear Tax Payer.  David Cameron, our prime minister, is spending £9.3million on a pamphlet which will go to every home the UK to tell you one side of the EU referendum story.  Basically, to tell you how to vote.  (Don’t they do that in N Korea and China?)

By all accounts it is a pretty ridiculous document.  But let us lay aside the content.  Any sensible person will take one look at it and dismiss it as propaganda, no matter what side of the debate they are on.

If David Cameron really believes he has a totally brilliant case, would it not have been better to go to an outside body, some respectable organisation, that could draw up a document giving a balanced view?  If David Cameron is so sure he is right, he would not have any problem with that, would he?. He knows his view of the facts would win people to his view.  Doesn't he?

But no, just days before the “purdah” time begins, the prime minister uses your money and mine to send us a pretty ropey piece of propaganda.  My goodness, there is many a dictator in the world who would blush at such bravado.

And as an aside, £9.3m could pay for 408 nurses for one year.