Quote of the day Saturday 27th September 2014

"Under any government, we face up to a further five years of austerity in public sector spending".
"The first five years have been challenging but the second five years are likely to prove even harder for three reasons:"

"Firstly, the easier savings have already been made.

"Secondly, we are likely to be doing it against a background of a growing economy and greater competition for good staff.

"Thirdly, the sense of urgency that underpinned the first savings programme will be reduced.

"In reality, the task is not yet complete. But this will be hard to explain to those in the public sector, including our own staff, who are looking for some relief."


(Sir Bob Kerslake, outgoing head of the UK civil service, speaking at the "Institute for Government" think tank this week.)

Comments

Jim said…
There are no easy answers. Basically expenditure has to fall. Yes in the short term this will hurt a lot of people (including me; gulp) but, there is no way things can carry on this way.

Though if you are fed up with trying to come up with a sensible solution here is a very silly one courtesy of Nigel.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage/11123922/Nigel-Farage-woos-working-class-voters-with-wag-tax.html

leave aside the fact that VAT is an EU tax and this is an idea from UKIP hmmmmm.

And also leave aside the fact you cant have more than 3 rates of VAT (as labour found out when they wanted fuel VAT cut to 17.5%)

Even when you ignore those two blatently obvious points, its still such a bad idea its funny.
Jim said…
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