The First Cut Isn’t the Deepest
Osborne is in the sunny Treasury atrium singing in the praises of the fast and most collegiate spending review in history.” With regard to Labour’s claims, Osborne claimed he has “comprehensively demolished all of their arguments” against not cutting yet. £6.43 billion pounds is more than the election promise box ticked, but makes only just over half of what is being over spent each month. ID Cards, a flagship saving barely takes at £90 million out of the debt. Vince has been landed with £800 million to find. He might have to bloody his hands yet.
The first cut isn’t the deepest and it needs to be repeated month after month after month…
Firstly, the sooner they start to to announce decent cuts to the public sector, the better.
Secondly, let’s look more deeply at local authority spending – there are rumours of directors setting up new quangos ready for the “outsourcing” of services…
Let the cutting begin!
Cheese Eton Surrender Monkey:
To be frank, I do not think Vince’s heart is in the job.
A typical wishy-washy liberal in fact, unable to take the bull by the horns and make the drastic cuts needed.
Nice to see the Grauniad still advertising Government jobs
http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/job/995215/senior-diversity-policy-manager/
Not looked at the advert, OH – didn’t want to blow a gasket by seeing what a senior diversity policy manager gets paid for doing fuck all of any use, and a great deal of harm.
I can’t figure out what these people do all day – I certainly don’t think I could ever justify to myself the idea of taking a large salary for not working. It’d give me so much stress and internal conflict that I’d go insane, and have to go on the sick permanently.
On a lighter note, a relative of mine has crawled her way up the greasy pole at the QCA and her 6 figure salaried non-job in IT mismanagement is about to disappear if rumours of the cuts are correct – she’s not the brightest button in the box, and has in fact achieved her position through diversity and lesbianism. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving candidate
Don’t worry, it’s only £70K plus pension.
ARRGGGHHHH
OH Motto of the day
“Fat? Lazy? Untalented? Employed? You’re working for the government aren’t you? Get ready to meet the real world”
Complete with typo(s).
I only spotted one.
There are two in the first two paragraphs/sentences. I would have found more but one can only read so many words that actually say nothing before one’s brain turnes to putty.
Why don’t they reintroduce charges for museums? Even a small levy (say 50p) would bring in a lot of dosh and only deter dossers
Rumours? They’ve been doing it for years. The chancellor should come and have a good long hard look at Waltham Forest and how Labour wastefully exerts its political patronage, also using the voluntary sector and certain ‘partners’ from the private sector.
Yes, I do wonder why the good people of Waltham Forest keep re-eclecting Labour. I was also surprised to see that Labour wiped out the Lib Dem in the coucil elections at the beginning of the month.
How does Labour buy these votes? By which mechanism does it manage to draw so much water to its mill. It certainly isn’t by deeds as Walthamstow looks and feels more like a suburb of Karachi, than a 21st century London borough.
Karachi is the key, I think – postal voting and funding of ‘community’ groups that then wield patronage.
It’s pretty standard Liebour practice in Subcontinentalised Britain.
It could just be shoddy maths teaching…
http://archipelago-of-truth.blog.co.uk/2010/05/15/the-hand-of-someone-but-probably-not-god-8594435/
They do the same thing in my own town of Rochdale
The counsellors create well paid jobs that they can’t afford to maintain for people with shameful IQ levels and these jobs actually hold a modicum power over the rest of us.
Then when things go wrong and you try to hunt these tax wasters down, the counsel closes it’s ranks because they are all the same unskilled troglodytes!
It’s troglodytes breeding troglodytes and furthering the unhappy situation!
Not to mention the excessive benefits, ridiculous social projects that seem to encompass just about anyone who isn’t a white male earning (or in a family earning) a respectable living.
Counsel tax is WAYYYYY up to pay for all the scroungers, it’s economic lunacy, squeezing the profitable and efficient part of the economy to pay for an over inflated and malfunctioning public sector
Doing away with 1st class travel is going to hurt the train companies..great. I hope the same will apply to air travel.
A sensible fuel duty on aircraft fuel would be a good green move, too – I’d love to be in the same room with Michael O’Leary when that’s announced – reckon he’d have an aneurism!
Would have to get the Channel and North sea countries to collude on an aviation fuel duty or O’Leary would simply top up outside the UK.
So make it a law that they have to pay a notional duty for all fuel that would have been consumed on the outbound flights, with a taper for efficient aircraft and high utilisation.
There’s probably some EU bollocks stopping us doing that, but it’s time we were out of that nonsense anyway.
I’d like to be there when they announce road bridges across the Channel and between Scotland and N Ireland
it may even mean that you don’t have get past 4 or 5 virtually empty first class carriages as you try to reach the first standard class one in the forlorn hope of managing to get a seat.
The freeloading Twat made this video on the 5th of MAY, the day before the election FFS!!!! Why was he flying out to China on government business the day before the election?
The fat tub of Lard was being air freighted all the way to China to talk about Climate Change and no doubt reductions in carbon emissions, why didn’t he just pick up the bleeding phone?
guido you are a twat
Is that you Vince?
I doubt they will have the fortitude to continiously cut and cut and cut.
Path of least resistence and all, they’ll try inflate it away
5% inflation already. With more QE to come and no intention of raising interest rates I think that’s a certainty.
5% declared inflation, I think from observations and how my shopping bill keeps going up it is closer to 15%
Wot U said
Petrol & Diesel costs more like 26%.
The Germans have the folk-memory of the Weimar Republic to keep them real. We should be taking a long hard look at Labour’s hyper-inflation 1975-79 to keep us real. Either way, I suggest that a double-dip world recession is now an evens bet.
Look on the bright side, though; any shops that sell nothing but scented candles (or other assorted New Age crap) managed to survive the last two years, they’re not going to survive the next two years.
I hadn’t looked at things that way. The coming armageddon seems not so bad after all!
I must take issue with you on scented candles…and other New Age crap.Here in west Cork I’ve been eaten alive by midges…New Age candles do very nicely thank you very much.Rather use them to keep midges away than ghastly polluting and very expensive chemicals.
What is wrong with old age candles – y’know the ones people used in Victorian times and earlier?
The bees have died off under Labour.
“the bees have died off under Labour”
Too many of them were workers, that’s why – under New Labour, a future fair for drones is the ambition.
Evens? I’ll take your money on that – racing certainty, more like.
I knew that all along, and the Tories are gonna take the rap….hahahahahahahahahahaha….
More QE to come? I’ve not heard about that one.
Any solid links to go with that?
“more inflation that will come from QE done a few months ago” perhaps. But I was under the impression that the QE stopped a couple of months before the election.
Sort of sock. But the tap was only turned off. Can be turned back on anytime.
“They [the Bank] have left the door open to potential further expansion should the data warrant it. Moreover, they were at pains to point out that they are not now turning hawkish – “the stock of past purchases, together with the low level of bank rate, would continue to impart a substantial monetary stimulus to the economy for some time to come.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/feb/04/quantitative-easing-monetary-policy-committee-bank-of-england
ah yes sort of. One imagines/hopes that the government won’t be tempted to turn the taps back on.
The bit I enjoyed was the halt in recruitment in the public sector. No more ads in The Gruniad. Poison Toynbee selling the chateau in Tuscany. My heart pumps purple piss.
I’ve got a stiff just thinking how miserable the holier than though sow could be. happy days….
http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/job/995215/senior-diversity-policy-manager/
” A demonstrated ability to network both internally and externally”
Total shite. Email that job to Osborne and get a confirmation that it wont be filled.
Classic Polly comment on Sky over the weekend: “The latest figures show that the deficit is £20bn less than we thought, so the £6bn cuts aren’t necessary” WTF?
Hey girls, the credit card ain’t maxed after all! Let’s go spend some more! Ms Toynbee and Mrs Ferguson are sisters under the skin.
Yes,it’s a classic.She has the mindset of someone who considers that the unused part of an overdraft constitutes personal wealth.
Neatly put.
I saw that clip too
I wonder what the colour of the sky is on her planet…
A rather nasty shade of pink(o), I think…
It’s safe to assume that Ms Toynbee has never had to worry about money in her life. You might ask, “what does this old buffer Waad know about being short of cash?” and it would be a fair point. Nevertheless, if you have to pay the staff, the oil company and the other creditors when DEFRA have goofed up your EU money for months on end it does concentrate your mind on the facts that It Doesn’t Grow On Trees and You Can’t Spend What You Haven’t Got.
Gordon seemed to think you could run an economy on IOUs and people sending emails to each other. This sort of thinking also seems to take place in the LSE and other temples of sophistry. It ain’t true.
Polly went to the dumb blond school of economics, walks down Kensington High Street and sees an old rag in the window marked down from £700 to £500, buys item and proudly declares “I went shopping today and saved £200″.
To show solidarity with her public sector bosom buddies, Pollytwaddle should do a jobswap.
Let Roadsweeper Ron write some articles for the Grauniad while sipping champagne from a shoe, and let PoisonedBee clean piss and puke from the pavement at 5am.
I bet most roadsweepers aren’t actually “public sector employees”.
Sock, you’re probably right.
Dayglo supplied by Birmingham City Council, wages paid by Adecco or Reed.
Still, I’d love to see PollyTwaddle trying to pick up kebab and snot with her bare hands.
I should get that checked out at the quacks may be you are about to get porphyria you George 3′s illness
Georgy boy repeating his employment tax over the airwaves again and again,he must have been listening in on his Liebour drones or maybe he is being taught by Mandy.
Watched him being interrogated by that Sian Williams cow today. BBC bias? I fucking think so. She’s still pushing the NuLab arguments that she was pushing during the run-up to the Election. No love lost there. She needs sacking.
Didn’t Sian give Gordon a hard time too some time last year at Conference time ?..he was so pissed off that he stormed out after the interview forgetting he had another two broadcasters to go through
That was Adam Boulton
..No, you’re right, it was Sian Williams
The Guardian will go bust. Hooray.
Has he actually said no more newspaper recruitment adds then?
“Deep cuts in newspaper advertising”
They can’t be more specific than that…
But Guardian obviously on the firng line…
bring it on…
They deserve it for what they’ve done to the Observer.I’ve taken it for years and my late father did before me but I’ve had to give it up after the relaunch-there not enough of it to warrent buying it.
“Deeper cust”
You mean they’ve reduced the imbecile ads not by 1% but a hole 1.5%. Using newspaper science that would be Shock! Horror! Cuts 50% deepr than expected! Film at eleven.
Can’t wait – a newspaper produced by tax-dodging lefty tosspots who have the temerity to lecture us on the evils of capitalism and tax evasion.
EU Membership costs us 52 BILLION a year or 4289 pounds per second. But Commie Ron and Without a Legg to Stand ON are EU puppets. It is absolutely pathetic. Deport all the crims we hold here because of their Human Wights (SIC) and deprit all of the 15% of the crims in jail here who are EU CITIZENS – there are savings. Commie Ron and Leggo Man have 1800 QUANGOS to close down and they are picking at the edges. Pathetic Munchkins that they are. We did NOT vote to be run by these dorks.
Thank you for SPEAKING YOUR BRAYNES.
Fair point about picking at the edges. That ’6bn’ has become, by tedious repetition, a myth in its own time. It is of course entirely fatuous from the economic point of view. But it has an uncanny resemblance to another number comprising the same digits. What then, I have been wondering, is the significance of the factor of ’1000′ – since when has this been a ‘magic’ number?
just make 10% in savings thats 15 billion without even using your brains i do it every couple of years if the lean times come in.
Works every time if you ask your work force to help they’ll see to that as no one wants to lose their jobs.
Ed Balls says Gordon Brown was prepared to risk UK security to stay in power
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jameskirkup/100040617/ed-balls-says-gordon-brown-was-prepared-to-risk-uk-security-to-stay-in-power/
So….. Ed was prepared to just keep quiet then eh?
unusual thing to complain about on the blog. I remember Guido is also “prepared to risk UK security” to save money.
Trident needs to be scrapped, keeping nukes under the sea, just in case, while we have tax hikes and a double dip recession is madness. If we really need to nuke someone do as the terrorists would do, sneek it in and set it off without warning!
Not even talking about no “nukes under the sea” cruise missiles on subs would have kept the argentiniands kakking themselves too.
Nothing stopping us putting a missile base on the Falklands
Yes, there is – common sense.
Think about it: They’ll build it and fill it with all sorts of loverly nukes. They’ll probably even assign a battalion or two of infantry to guard it so for a couple of years everything will be hunkie doorie.
Then when the money for Diversity workshop co-ordinators runs a bit thin the guards will be gradually reduced until the whole thing is being protected by a Chelsea Pensioner and his guide dog. At this point everyone will be “horified”, “surprised” and “shocked” when the Argies walk in and make themselves the world’s next nuclear power; all courtesy of the British taxpayer.
And the IT systems we’ve heard so much about seem to bring… 95million. A paltry sum for the amount we’ve been hearing it.
An “Oh shit Labour weren’t as wasteful as we’ve been saying” moment?
It’s a “Labour were bigging it up for the GE but closing it down anyway” moment. Have no fear – the worst of Labour’s enronomic policy disasters are yet to come.
No it’ll be a “Oh shit, we can’t cancel the contracts” moment.
Thanks Labour.
Think of it as a “the current contracts are cancelled and if you fight this decision you’ll never win any future ones” moment.
Think of it as a “the current contracts are cancelled and if you fight this we will investigate how you won them in the first place and send you to prison” moment
**applause**
Every little helps. I’d sooner it wasn’t ‘invested’ thank you.
Booting out all the diversity awareness coordinators and elf’n'safety box-tickers should save a few billion.
done…
nope, still hiring. From the Grauniad today. £70K a year
http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/job/995215/senior-diversity-policy-manager/
‘Diversity’ in the public sector includes having some people who are really very good and work hard, as well as lots of drones who are useless and fill their days with displacement activities. The latter are promoted to ‘manage’ the former.
‘Diversity directors’ operate in a kind of parallel, virtual world like those web games where your character can acquire ‘skills’ and ‘power-ups’ before going off to vanquish Baltazor the Overlord.
Fergie for Chancellor!
Where’s my dough as promised, bitch?
$40,000 upfront ain’t too bad. She might make a decent agent for Guido.
$40,000 upfront? Wonder how much she charges if taken from the rear?
you mean they’re going for the s..l..o..w..b..u..r..n
CUT GOVERNMENT SPENDING AND CUT TAXES
THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE (EXCEPT A DEPRESSION)
Well, that’s the Nobel Prize in the bag.
I think you mean slash
more of a scratch than a slash really
really? I’d call it an itch that results in the loss of a few epithelial layer cells (which would have fallen off anyway)
Labour’s arguments are FOR not cutting yet, not against it.
The real trick will be to change the way the system is driven. At present, taking on more staff and increasing costs is the way to power and glory in the public sector. It also satisfies the basic wish that many have actually to help other people; i”f we’re spending more, we must be doing more good, mustn’t we? It shows we care!”
How do we replace this view with “I’m handling other people’s money. How can I do this most effectively?” How do we reward this kind of behaviour instead of penalising it as at present?
Having done the impossible in the public sector, we could perhaps try to wean the private sector off its addicitons to short-term fixes, crazy risks and grab-the-money-and-run tactics.
Whoopi Golberg for Mayor of London
And Marx Brothers as Joint Leaders of Labour Party
The guidoisation of the left will be complete…!!
No chance of joint leaders of any party – Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
it’s ostrich time in the uk…..
greece,spain,portugal,ireland and even germany are having to make cutbacks…..
japan and the u.s too.several states already bankrupt.city of los angeles also….
but here in the uk where we just print money we argue over £6bn when several trillion has been wasted……..
our banks are broken,we manufacture very little and we are now net importers of oil………
and the banks are buying gilts with the funny money the govt. has printed and given to them….
the future will be bleak.
The first cut isn’t the deepest and it needs to be repeated month after month after month…
Err… no, to have any effect, it needs to be repeated fortnight after fortnight after fortnight ….
Anything less and the country is still spiralling into a debt blackhole.
Labour borrowed £10 billion in April alone.
Gordon Brown was borrwing 25p of every £1 he spent.
£6 billion of cuts does not even scratch the surface if we are serious about tackling the deficit.
Vince Cable as an inherant socialist will baulk at doing the necessary and will become the coalition disenters poster boy.
We all know that you cannot spend on borrowing forever and belts have to be tightened.
With the scale of government and personal debt, we cannot avoid a double dip recession, when can only postpone it by throwing good money after bad (take Greece as an example).
Osbourne has to cut faster and harder to pull us through the mess Gordon Brown has left and it is not going to be pleasant for all of us.
The writing is on the wall; those with the opportunity (and most scarily, the money) are leaving the country in droves.
While I agree on the cuts – why is Osborne wimping out and leaving it to the LibDems.
The guy is a total waste of space. Get Ken now.
Why have a dog and bark yourself?
6 billion in cuts represent 3 days of current government spending – more is needed to prevent the greek holiday experience paying a visit to the UK!
Anyway, the temperature is finally helping to prepare for the greek experience.
PS Anything in the Queen’s speech to tighten up postal voting procedures?
362 days worth to go then. Not having my abacus to hand that seems an awful lot of money.
Perhaps he should consider an approach similar to that being suggested for Scotland, cutting income tax and the block grant by 10% and then leaving it to Scotland to decide how to fill the hole for local authority spending.
Cut tax by the the same amount as the block grant to local authorities and then let people decide locally how to pay for their bins to be emptied and roads cleaned.
Cut the “block grant” bvy 100% I say
Tell the Scots to paddle their own canoe…
They have damaged England enough…
Weird watching a Government acting responsibly……………
I must admit it seems very strange watching government ministers on tv and not having to decipher the spin, lies and subterfuge on a daily basis.
Nice work by the BBC this morning. Breakfast quantified the £6bn by showing how many teachers or nurses salaries it would pay. They then demonstrated that the cuts would amount to about 4% of the deficit. I think the message was that thousands of teachers and nurses would lose their jobs for a small reduction in the deficit.
Par for the course, surely? They always reduce everything to the silly currency of schools ‘n hospitals, just as their loathed and despised masters did, so what else should we expect?
It must be time for a new cuts currency – I suggest BBC jobs.
Well it shows that cuts are bad and teachers and nurses are good.
Good and bad, both views represented in one item.. how much more balanced could the BBC be?
They did also say that the total cuts are greater than all the cash we pay for our wonderful Royal Navy
Which was a very good arguement ( indirectly) for leaving the matelots alone and maybe paying for a few more nice shiny ships – the RN deserve it.
But their argument will fall flat on its’ face when people realise there’s no discernible difference to the service at all post-cuts.
Starngely they didn’t show how many hundreds of diversity workshop coordinators 6 billion could pay for
£6.243 billion, Guido – do keep up!
Much said about Quangos, and it seems strange that there isn’t a totemic slaughter.
Union Learing Fund – £40m to unions some of which is recycled back to the Labour Party.
Potato Council – £6.5m funding potatoes FFS
http://www.lovepotatoes.co.uk/
Many of the Quangos are funded by industry levys so while there isn’t a saving for HMG, they are in fact a tax on consumers which is acting as a brake on consumer spending.
Remember it is cheaper to pay unemplyment benefit than employ civil servants and quangocrats carring out pointless tasks.
“……sorry, just gone through a tunnel. Look, Jen, I’m out of the loop on Maris Pipers. I’ll need a quick debrief before the Quality Added meeting. Where are we on the diversity stats for Desiree growers by the way? Got Adrian breathing down my neck. It’s been an exhausting week, I’ve been unloading 40,000 tonnes of King dwards.
Must go, got to work on my presentation to the Intervention Secretariat. I’ll call you again from Watford for no reason.”
Scab
You might want to have a look at how YOU too can claim £500K a year for five years
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/working-with-dfid/funding-opportunities/not-for-profit-organisations/cscf/
I thought you meant you were going to stand as an MEP.
I see that not a penny of our money will go on actual aid.
I was a great chancellor and prime minister. And I saved the world.
And I saved Green Shield Stamps.
Shouldn’t you be signing on today … oh, it’s only Monday.
Do you know what I’ve really enjoyed about all this?
We haven’t seen or heard the fat scottish cyclops for days now. He’s literally disappeared. No longer meddling in our lives, he’s now wholly impotent.
I can just imaging him rocking backwards and forwards in a dark room, going over and over the events of Autumn 2007 and asking himself again and again *why* didn’t he call the election then.
Yes indeed – the sun is shining – and no Gordon looming like a big black cloud – or should that be clod?
See that big black cloud on the horizon? That’s my scorched earth policy that is.
Yes, it’s truly miraculous. McBust and his bunch of liars, wreckers and bully-boys have completely vanished. No more of the silly and robotic Adonis, slimy Mandeslime, Fatty Prescott, Blinky Bollocks, Mrs Blinky Bollocks, Batty Harperson…..
Long may it continue. It’s not only the weather that is lifting our spirits. That big black cloud has finally moved away.
Now there’s just the small matter of their fantastic legacy – £153bn. Still, young Georgie seems to be getting stuck into it like a rat up a drainpipe. Good lad, the scope for cuts is almost endless, he must be spoilt for choice.
Don’t get too complacent, the phuquers are just keeping a low profile while they regroup under a new leader and prepare their lies.
It’ll be a two pronged campaign. The left pincer will involve a “stab-in-the-back-myth” about the 2010 election while the right one is loaded with lies about how the dire economic situation and mass unemployment amongst government workers is all the fault of the tories.
Good isn’t it. Like when the burglar alarm down the street finally stops bleeping. That refreshing sound of silence…
Today, for example, its a Monday yet something is missing from the airwaves.
The absence of a new Gordon relaunch! A £5 off British Gas voucher for the low paid or some other bollocks screeching into the air.
And tomorrow we won’t have to listen to it crashing back to earth in flames either.
He’s filling out the application form for the IMF where he will be a flunky for Strauss-Kahn, a fellow socialist who thinks the sun shines out of Gordons’ arse. Be very afraid.
Does this mean he gets the chance to bale us out of the loans he left us?
The simplistic argument that only government spending is keeping the economy afloat is misses the point about what we are spending the money on.
Let us assume that HMG cannot just pull the rug out and stop spending overnight as the impact would be just too horrendous to contemplate.
The issue then comes as to how to shift a significant bulk away from the black hole and into funding growth in the wider economy.
For example, if for every £1 of spending cut, there a 50p cut in general taxatation on the weath creating part of the economy then the cuts could be twice the size and half as painful.
There are many ways of doing this. Reducing the marginal rate of tax at the lower level is good for the weakest in the economy and rewards work.
Varying VAT rates for different goods would help. What about reducing or removing VAT on cooked food and alcohol served from licenced premises? Or reducing corporation tax on smaller business? At a stroke you would support the small businesses that are the lifeblood of the economy and keep money in the economy that is currently being sucked out by multinationals – and make a lot of people happy which has got to be good given our predicament.
That seems like a pretty good idea, which is why we’ll ignore it.
I think you’ll find that the plan is to add VAT to the current exemption on cold food and make it all the same as hot food.
All the vat rules are mental anyway.
Both alcohol and fags are not essential for human existence and therefore should be taxed as luxuries. I do like my pint, BTW, just know how important it is in the scheme of things.
Excellent Idea
Mummy, when will we meet our real daddy?
I’m afraid you’ll never meet him because I don’t know who he is. I only know him by the number that was assigned to his bottle of spunk in the clinic.
Cut and cut DEEP in Scotland and Wales – the bastards hate the English and are Socialist and they want to be ‘independent’ and they will never ever vote Tory so fuck ‘em I say!!
Certainly, the harder and sooner the better. The £1400 extra per head we spend in Scotland is conveniently ignored whenever that smug bastard from the SNP starts shouting the odds. Remove it, and more. Only stop cutting when they get what we get – paying for our own care in old age, the latest cancer drugs denied to us…..the list is just about endless. If they want separation from England then for pity’s sake don’t stand in their way!
Buy them up again when they bankrupt themselves and deport all the immigrant trash to them.
It’s payment for their oil and all that heavy they’re forced to drink, innit the noo?
+1 for that.
The scots gave us Brown and Blair, so it’s only right they suffer hugely.
Well, at least that’s better than:
“I’m afraid you’ll never meet him because I don’t know who he is. I only know he was one of the several useless dole sponging chavs I was servicing at that time.”
‘Brendan Barber, the general secretary of the TUC union, said: ”Taking any money out of the economy at the moment is dangerous as there is a real risk of a double dip recession, which will only damage the state of the public finances further.”‘
Another retarded muggle that doesn’t know the difference between the govt. and the economy.
They are just repeating the nonsense that was spouted endlessly by McBust and Blinky. Time to change the record folks.
It’s the political equivalent of Japanese knotweed. Virtually immune to control, all you can do is dig it out every time it shows itself.
I’ve not been in a union for decades – not since I realised how much money the bosses were taking out of my personal economy and spending on themselves.
Government and Ministers are taking a pay cut – and so are most Taxpayers – I wonder if this applied to the top Union Officials?
Bet your life they will still be scrounging off their “members” – travelling First Class and trips to Cuba.
Would be nice to see an enquiry into Union expenses, starting with the last 10 million to fund Gordon Brown – money down the drain?
Boo hoo hoo.
You had 13 years of good times for your slack-jawed drooling members.
Now it’s time for the correction of all that was wrong, and reality has to kick in.
Deport every fucking muslim benefit scrounger, and cut the benefits of every fucking chav benefit scrounger, and that’ll probably save about a trillion in one stroke.
I’m of to celebrate our cultural diversity once my cheque is cleared.
Gisa job, please.
There’s only room for one comedian ex MP, bitch.
How about a full-on cold critical look at the sacred cow that is the NHS?
They made a good start with dentistry, so why not go the whole hog reach out into all other areas?
When people are made to pay for services it eliminates many time-wasters (and hence costs) at a stroke.
I would simply demand that everything from a MRI scanner to a sticking plaster has the real price tag left on it for the “customer” to see. Always.
It’s amazing how many cleaners use £135 mops. Twice.
At a stroke? you are heartless, its not easy trying to explain your credit rating when all one side of your face has just gone numb.
For a start they could charge, say, £25 to see a GP.
That would get rid of all those malingerers who clog up surgeries with rubbish like a runny nose.
All the best to the Edinburgh Marathon runners tomorrow – will be a hot one!
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Hmmmmm…
The brainless fuckwhits that run the unions are whingeing about it so you can say with absolute certainty that Osborne and Laws are on the right track.
David Laws: He’s like Vince but shorter, smarter and hairier.
I can picture all the LibDems moaning because Laws seems more like a Tory than ‘Dave’.
The argument is simple wealth re-distrubtion = wealth control.
The union fat cats are moaning because less public sector workers = less union subscriptions being paid = union fat cats not being able to spend said subscritions and enjoy the high class lifestyle they have been accustomed too.
They are losing control of the wealth.
If the Tories had the gumption to sit down and show the working man and woman the unions corruption and hypocricsy then they would be able to silence the unions.
Get M15 to dig up the dirt on the union leaders expenses and high life they enjoy while the workers get a bad deal.
These Robber barons moan about the evil tories and anyone else who makes their own money yet these robber barons sit and enjoy the same high class lifestyle they protest against and do it by standing on the backs of the workers they purport to be the friends off.
Charlie Whelan isn’t fat, he’s big boned.
Enough of the PC rubbish.
He’s fat.
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REALLY FAT. Like a lard pie smothered in dripping and more lard.
Good news everyone! The Unions are apparently planning to fight the first of many necessary budget constrictions on the implausible grounds that cutting things like ID cards will cause a double dip recession.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/9547bd68-66ab-11df-aeb1-00144feab49a,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F9547bd68-66ab-11df-aeb1-00144feab49a.html&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicshome.com%2F
In other news, the FTSE continued to drop and in the past week and a half has dropped further than it has for about a year.
The policy just needs tweaking with PFI money, we will purchase our ID cards from Moonpig.
Does this mean the Unionistas will go on strike and we, the taxpayer won’t have to pay them for their day off?
Bring it on Woodley & Co., I’m all for saving the country a bit more wonga.
Just come across this on eBay.
For Sale one XXL Stab Vest.Hardly used.
Sellers name’ Redditchbitch’ Erm,I wonder?
Am well impressed with David Laws.
Who’d a thought that a LibDem would be implementing good solid Conservative action?
No more LibDums they are playing with the big boys and they are fast learners it seems.
Darling has just been on Sky decrying the brothers Grimm of the treasury. Darling has got a nerve, has Darling forgotten that he and Brown got us into this financial dwang and as usual the Conservatives have to pick up the financial pieces.
Would this be serial house flipper Darling?
A crook who manages to get a free ride simply because he was less obnoxious than the chancellor before him.
I hope he dies soon.
What were they thinking of ‘protecting’ such notorious money wasters as Health, Defence, Education and International Development?
The cuts they +have+ announced are not even 1% of government spending.
Not a very good start Mr Osborne.
Or to look at it another way, they’ve cut more in a fortnight than Labour did in 13 years.
More cuts month after month is spot on. We might actually end up with a Public Sector which morphs into a proper public service, not our unelected masters misusing our money.
Of course the Civil Service will squeal like hell. Good.
Two of the cuts made today:
1. Child Trust Fund credits. Apparently these were funded by borrowing. Duh!
2. A £5m project: “teaching children how to play”. Duh!
It’s unbelievable. Only socialists could introduce such lunatic spending policies.
I’m thinking that we’re going about this the wrong way. Instead of just saying to each government department “you need to cut your spending by x%”, it’d be better to get the heads of each government department to review every single contract that’s pending/active, and to say “do we really need this? can this be done better?” If you have that approach being applied by someone who knows what they’re doing then you could well save something like 20% in each government department overnight.
In the private sector, when a negligent boss is ousted and a new ceo takes over, that’s what they do; they review all the contracts and work out better ways to do things. They don’t say “we need to save 5% of costs”, they go through the books/contracts and bin everything they don’t need and improve everything they do need, and they don’t stop until they reach a sustainable balance of costs/income/growth. They overhaul the whole company and get it doing things that make sense.
The “you need to cut your costs by x%” approach is all wrong, it’s like saying “as long as you cut 5% off your budget, we don’t care if you’re burning the remaining 95% of your money”.
I agree to some extent, but contracts don’t cover all spending by govt departments.
I have suggested elsewhere that what is needed is something similar to what you suggest: a detailed study of every activity that each department performs and find ways to make it more efficient, more effective and less costly. Many activities could be scrapped altogether since they achieve nothing except consume resources and/or impose a level of unnecessary control over people. One example is the Immigration Agency; it employs 25,000 people and has created visa application rules which even some of its staff don’t understand. But it has not prevented 1-2 million illegal immigrants being in the UK. It has succeeded in making visa application for legitimate visitors to the UK a costly and bureaucratic nightmare.
Scrapping ID cards will save a lot more than that. It was going to overrun its budget massively.