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Quote: Oldrocker @ October 5 2010, 12:39 AM BSTAnyway, this thread is about Tory spending cuts!
Sorry. I think you missed a major development just after the election.
In principle this cut makes perfect sense. However, as oldrocker says seems to be a bit of a f**k up in the fact that the cut isn't calulated on household income.
It seems we've got an Orwellian double-speak party. 2 days ago they said they'd make sure people would be better off working rather than on benefits, and now we find that people can gain benefits in they earn less. In the NHS they've been 'asked to find savings' despite the earlier message that funding was ringfenced. They propose the Big Society but withdraw funding from volunteer groups.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ October 5 2010, 1:00 AM BSTI already created a thread for tory spending cuts. It's here: https://www.comedy.co.uk/forums/thread/17775/
shouldn't we be trying to use the earlier thread instead of wasting money on a new one?
Don't worry, I've got an EU subsidy for mine.
Fantastic political own goal - watch them back pedal over the next few weeks. Poor old George is on a hiding to nothing - anything he proposes to cut the deficit is going to be shot down in flames because this coalition government is too fragile to make tough decisions.
And for what it is worth tax and universal benefits is the only equitable system. This proposal is just a tax on the middle class for having children.
How the f**k can this man sleep at night!
What a complete bunch of self serving bastards politicians can be.
Oh that's just wrong.
Quote: Will Cam @ October 5 2010, 1:32 PM BSTHow the f**k can this man sleep at night!
What a complete bunch of self serving bastards politicians can be.
Yeap. Power to the people.
It's quite sweet that they pay half the salary to save the poor dears taking the first dodgy directorship that comes up.
That and he gets 86.50 nosh a day as a lord. I'm a greedy sod butthat's 7 big Kfc buckets, even I couldn't do that!
Quote: sootyj @ October 5 2010, 7:49 PM BSTIt's quite sweet that they pay half the salary to save the poor dears taking the first dodgy directorship that comes up.
Or a position on HM government.
Makes you realis how pathetic Griffin cribbing his expenses were.
But we should be sticking to the big stuff Tory cuts.
They're going to streamline all benefits and cap them?
Bad time to poor sick, in a price with average rents or few jobs.
The cost of broken families, illness and despair will dwarf a few measely savings.
So the Government are gloating over the report from Sir Philip Green that has concluded that the civil service fails to make the most of its scale, buying power and credit rating, and that the lack of a centralised approach means different departments pay hugely different prices for the same items.
I wonder if this might have anything to do with the Next Steps reforms of the last Tory administration, which balkansied the civil service into non-Departmental agencies with delegated budgets, so that it would operate more like the private sector...
Interestingly even those welcoming the review are baulking at Sir Philip's recommendation that Government should use its buying power to delay paying suppliers. Government has a moral accountability that big business does not, a point reformers sometimes miss.
So tomorrows the day, everybody ready?
http://www.londoncomedywriters.com/blog/Dr_Sardonicus/loot/
Blog post on the subject
A lot of senior NHS people are being offered 'mutual resignation', where they can resign in return for a big lump sum related to their time in service. Obviously, it would be silly if they could just reapply for their old jobs, so they're not allowed to work again in the NHS...for 6 months. So we could be paying them tens of £thousands to take 6 months off! Although of course that won't happen, instead we simply won't have positions for the most experienced and valuable people.