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10/10!
Bravo, Mark.
Jake Berry , Conservative Party Chairman, “I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that the public sector should look at its expenses in the same way that every single household is doing in this country.
What we’ve heard from the government is there’s going to be a drive to trim fat in terms of government expenditure.”
The economic illiteracy is staggering. The Paradox of Thrift as Keynes explained it. If the public and private sector both cut spending, both experience a loss of income.
When there are not enough doctors and nurses, when teachers are helping kids to buy a lunch even though their own salaries have fallen in real terms, I think we can say, ‘there is no fat.’
My wife told me she read some kids were bringing empty lunchboxes to school so that others wouldn’t know they couldn’t afford the meal. It is heart breaking.
The Victorian workhouse was designed to shame people from seeking aid except as a last resort. 92 years after it was abolished (by Neville Chamberlain) it still casts a long and dark shadow.
And someone who went to school with Kamikwazi says he is incredibly arrogant while tutors thought he was brilliant. As far as I am concerned, I have seen a good bit of the former and none of the latter. What is the current evidence of this brilliance?
@ Maybe of interest:
Simon Clarke, the chief secretary to the Treasury, indicated there could be big cuts to welfare spending, telling the Times*: “My big concern in politics is that western Europe is just living in a fool’s paradise whereby we can be ever less productive relative to our peers, and yet still enjoy a very large welfare state and persist in thinking that the two are somehow compatible over the medium to long term. They’re not.”
*https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/simon-clarke-interview-truss-is-enjoying-her-chance-to-pull-britain-out-of-its-fools-paradise-rndrm9kn6, (30sep22)
Spot on Mark.
“If you can’t swim … drown”. How apt as a slogan for this lot.
Clever and witty, beautifully reflected in the music. Did I detect ragtime influecned syncopation, we might have found in New Orleans, 1929; just as the bottom fell out of the market …….. ……? How apt.
Is the public sector not made up of all the households who are looking at their expenses?
My son was telling me yesterday that he has worked in the same job for fourteen years, in a council in the north. His wife has been a teacher in the same county for seven years. Her pay has just overtaken his, despite him having a payrise and increment every year. He also has to have an interview every year to justify his job. In his job he actually brings in money for the council.
Not sure what Jake Berry expects of people.
As I posted on another thread, Jake Berry says that anyone unable to pay their bills should either cut their consumption (of what he doesn’t say) or go out & get a better job with higher pay. Easy peasy – problem solved! Or, as Mark puts it, “if you can’t swim … drown”. Truss & Kwarteng would appear to agree.
I am afraid that they seem to