This is planned UK government spending for this year:
The Conservatives are going to keep education fixed.
You can be sure debt interest is not going down.
They want to cut budgets by 10%
Now where’s that £67 billion to come from?
Costed suggestions welcome.
The ‘Red Book’ is here for those who want some help.
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The NHS preserved but elsewhere a 10 per cent. cut OR a 7 per cent. cut for all (including the NHS).
Those are the choices on offer from, respectively, the Conservatives and Labour.
(Lansley was wrong about the Conservatives keeping education fixed: it is only the NHS they would immunise from cuts.)
The numbers are analysed quite helpfully here :- http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2009/06/those-public-spending-numbers.html
The British people are soon to discover the true cost of the Great Recession that Brown has presided over and did quite a bit to make worse.
No is listening anymore, Richard. The majority of voters (which must, by definition, include those who allegedly depend on public services) according to a PoliticsHome poll this week want cuts in public spending. The last 12 years have tested to destruction the idea that more and more spending necessarily means improvements to public services. I suspect in your heart you know that. Public spending cuts are coming, whether you like it or not, because you are losing the argument Richard about the efficacy of state intervention. In fact it is already lost. Get ready for slash and burn and a reduction in the size and power of your beloved state, with a concomitant increase in the power of the ordinary citizen. It’s coming…
Power for the ordinary citzen
To die
To be uneducated
To pollute
To clear their own waste
To be undefended
To have no access to justice
To have no protectiion at work
To eat unsafe food
To drive unsafe cars
That’s liberty is it?
Richard
Peter
I love your enthusiasm for seeing the sick die, the poor begging on the streets, the disabled confined to their homes, the environment wasted whilst presumably you and your mates can lord it over the lower orders. You disgust me.
Richard,
Without wishing to sound like the Daily Mail, we have gangs all over London stabbing and killing because they believe they have been “disrespected”.
We have families with 5 or 6 kids, each with different fathers.
We have millions of able bodied people on full time incapacity benefit.
There are parts of the country – such as Teesdie – where undser 25% of the population have employment in the private sector.
And then we have ID cards, Trident etc.
There is lots of fat to trim, it just needs an end to the mindset that the state is there to be happily milked by the millions who do not take responsibility for themselves.
A society has the rights it can afford: if you want a glimpse of the future, look at the rights a person has in China – because the Chinese are the ones who are going to own all our business and hold all our debt for the next century, and they will ultimately decide what we can afford to spend on ourselves and what we need to give back to them.
@James from Durham
James, the sick are ALREADY dying, the poor already begging on the streets, the disabled confined to their homes, and the environment wasted after 40-50 YEARS of public services that were supposedly designed to eliminate those problems, AND with a whole plethora of NEW problems created by the fact that we now have at least three generations of people who have no idea how to take care of themselves.
The status quo is GOOD??? You are kidding, aren’t you?
The status quo is not good. That doesn’t mean that any old half-bked “rolling back of the state” is going to make things better. You think things are bad in the UK? Take a look around the world – it gets much worse than this.
And any government bureaucracy spends at least 30% of its money JUST on admin costs. More expenses for salaries and perks for employees. If a private company operated the way most governments do, they’d end up in jail.
Mamapajam
Have you ever worked in commerce?
Only 30% on beauracracy of their own making?
Who are you kidding?
Richard