The egregious and vile Ed Bollocks thinks we should be worried about cuts.
Labour has accused the Conservatives of planning “extreme” post-election public spending cuts of £70bn.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls made a speech unveiling Labour’s analysis of how Conservative plans would affect non-protected Whitehall departments.
My only worry is that they won’t. After all, the Tories promised to get rid of the quangos and failed to follow through. So while I would love to see some really nice cuts, the likelihood it is all talk – that’s politicians for you; all talk and no knickers. None of them will cut hard and deep into the fat of the state. I’d happily vote for anyone who promised to do that and I believed they would carry out that promise. As for Ed – well, that creature can go fuck himself.
For all his parading and bouncing up and and down today as he relished in unveiling the evil, child-eating Tories imaginary spending plans, I am stil waiting for Ed to conjur up any kind of realistic, costed and honest plan of how he would manage the Government’s finances.
Of course the answer is he doesn’t have f**king clue, and frankly neither would I considering that Labour have already committed to reduce the defecit more quickly than the Tories, increase NHS spending by £30bn pa, enforce the living wage, reduce tuitition fees, ringfence all public services and subsidise Alex Salmond’s dreams.
Apparently the bankers bonus has already been hypothocated about 13 times over, and the mansion tax about 9.
Where is the money coming from Ed? I think we should be told…
You made me think of a post I did back in July 2010. I wonder how many broken promises were in this particular piece…
http://dioclese.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/repeal-bill-song.html
Thatcher got into Downing Street and almost immediately went into attack mode on trades unions and the Civil Service. Her, and her ministers’ efforts were heroic, but not enough to do the job. Subsequent governments have failed to even acknowledge any need to reign back the unaffordable public sector. I wonder what the ratio of sucklers on the tax teat is vis a vis those who are (probably) the tits. The only efficient local authority department is revenue collection. That’s how they fund their bloated salaries and pensions. In a few years’ time we will have an “us and them problem”, wealth wise. We already have an us and them, as they hoover up every loose pound. Bastards.
Well put, Andy.
I don’t recognise that version of Thatcher (and I was there). She did for the Unions, yes, but aside from the Rate Caps for Local Authorities, she didn’t do much to reign in Public Sector spending or waste, and she was Queen of the Quango.
She also increased taxes, both in real terms and a percentage of GDP over her reign. I am not saying she didn’t do any good, but I am getting a bit tired of the “she saved Britain” revisionists.
Meanwhile, cutting things that REALLY matter & we can’t afford to do without, like the Navy & Kew Gardens.
Wankers