tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post379547449313347652..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: Osborne Sticks Knife Into LabourIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-84224823861680459692010-04-10T11:52:11.892+01:002010-04-10T11:52:11.892+01:00No mention that the entire Britih political establ...No mention that the entire Britih political establishment has wasted a week arguing about a sum that actually makes up less than 1% of either party's total spending plans.<br /><br />We don't need 40,000 useless mouths axed from the civil service due to attrition. We need hundreds of thousands if not a million or two to find P45s in their in-trays on May 7th.The Remittance Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13104149259707414863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-30123353584148731602010-04-10T01:50:11.129+01:002010-04-10T01:50:11.129+01:00Or, in reply to Jimmy, Gordon Brown walking withou...Or, in reply to Jimmy, Gordon Brown walking without hurling a secretary from her chair or throwing phones and office equipment about.Martin Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04148241391183658112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-74307388947270938052010-04-09T21:08:51.036+01:002010-04-09T21:08:51.036+01:00Thespecialone - you are right, the waste is hideou...Thespecialone - you are right, the waste is hideous, both in terms of pointless staff doing non-jobs and also huge amounts spent on contractors to do the jobs we actually pay civil servants supposedly to do.<br /><br />I'm glad the Tories openly came out at last and said they will tackle IT expenditure, which has been rampantly, utterly out of control. However, I felt an immediate drop in believability when they said they've been discussing it with the Business Services Association - as the latter exists purely as boosterists for the big consultancies, it's a bit difficult to accept that the end product of that will be a reduction. Still, we'll see. The big contractors are past masters at running rings around both "senior" civil servants and ministers.DespairingLiberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02903904463236135611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-33308849363481816052010-04-09T21:05:37.820+01:002010-04-09T21:05:37.820+01:00Yawn. Blather blather. Does anyone in the other pa...Yawn. Blather blather. Does anyone in the other party even read these pointless letters of accusation they routinely send each other? Do they even send them, other than to the press/bloggers? Are they even real, or are they templated in advance and rolled off by computer?DespairingLiberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02903904463236135611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-78381703383035499622010-04-09T20:40:48.186+01:002010-04-09T20:40:48.186+01:00This is a word to the Labour supporters who post h...This is a word to the Labour supporters who post here, either as such or as disgruntled Tories.<br /><br />For Osborne to save £6-billion from government waste is exactly as hard as the average family on the median income saving 60P a day. Think about that.<br /><br />Now let's talk about public sector staff reductions - the No.10 spin machine forecasts 20,000 to 40,000 job losses if NI is not put up. It is interesting to note that several quite respectable large organisations forecast that the increase would cost 57,000 jobs, but no matter. The public sector employs a huge number of people - we don't know how many but it is certainly as much as 2-million. For the sake of being benign in argument let us say the average career of a civil servant is 40 years [it isn't by the way]. So we can calculate that about 50,000 of them retire every year. So no redundancies at all would be involved in reducing the public sector by 40,000 jobs.<br /><br />So nobody need take sides here - just do the simple arithmetic and strip the rhetoric.<br /><br />The only losers here are the Guardian.Victor, NW Kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14778890471547456396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-7181638826326640552010-04-09T20:37:38.305+01:002010-04-09T20:37:38.305+01:00Osborne discussing economics for some reason calls...Osborne discussing economics for some reason calls to mind Johnson's aphorism about dogs walking upright.Jimmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01542633492362670045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-55851747333422272062010-04-09T20:34:36.714+01:002010-04-09T20:34:36.714+01:00Employers NICs are a stealth tax.
They should be i...Employers NICs are a stealth tax.<br />They should be included on payslips so that workers can see what is being paid on their behalf.<br /><br />Better still, implement UKIPs idea of rolling NICs and income tax into one simple flat tax.<br /><br />We could then release tens of thousands of staff at HMR&C who could be re-trained to do something useful.<br />...Twighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16698620636313191152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-15088022884369388432010-04-09T20:28:22.530+01:002010-04-09T20:28:22.530+01:00Richard,
I hope you don't mind but for brevit...Richard,<br /><br />I hope you don't mind but for brevity's sake, is it ok if we all call you Dick?GarethShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13207806640711750915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-67011119365972207102010-04-09T20:26:06.531+01:002010-04-09T20:26:06.531+01:00I don;t think Glove-puppet is Chancellor anymore, ...I don;t think Glove-puppet is Chancellor anymore, he's just another flipper trying to get re-elected, hence addressing it to the skip outside No.11Barnacle Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17257546424880537005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-46713296245380831112010-04-09T20:10:35.705+01:002010-04-09T20:10:35.705+01:00'Why are you hiding the truth about your jobs ...'Why are you hiding the truth about your jobs tax from the British people?' Because he has learnt mendacity from Gordon Brown?Not a sheephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14123293202225008273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-85252473620348339052010-04-09T20:08:36.895+01:002010-04-09T20:08:36.895+01:00Richard.blogger if you really do work in the publi...Richard.blogger if you really do work in the public sector as I do; you will know that the public sector is a bloated inefficient organisation. In my particular department I estimate that they could cut the work force by up to 10% tomorrow and there would be no difference to output. Oh and before you ask, I have also run my own business as well so dont tell me about job losses. What the unions are saying is what unions always do. The unions can foxtrot oscar as far as I am concerned and I have never paid a penny to PCS. Get real. The public sector eats up taxpayers' money. The private sector is the wealth creator. Of course you need public sector workers. But why has the number risen by 750,000 since 1997? Because Brown is a statist. Now he has spent all the money. You know as well as I do that Osborne has stated that there will be no front line job losses. Cuts will be made by not replacing those that leave their 'non-jobs'. You are being told lies by Labour and lies by the union.thespecialonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06514789597629728269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-20062713669107145172010-04-09T20:01:43.475+01:002010-04-09T20:01:43.475+01:00I was amused that his letter was addressed, "...I was amused that his letter was addressed, "Alastair Darling, Labour Party" and not "Chancellor of the exchequer, HM Treasury". Almost as if Darling was the shadow chancellor already.................................https://www.blogger.com/profile/09387648864595329094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-73297395156418715792010-04-09T19:46:40.132+01:002010-04-09T19:46:40.132+01:00No he hasn't. He was on 5 Live today.No he hasn't. He was on 5 Live today.Iain Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-71318185618522963562010-04-09T19:44:38.776+01:002010-04-09T19:44:38.776+01:00If George Osborne is really "caring" I w...If George Osborne is really "caring" I would expect him to be concerned with finding out who has kidnapped Chris Grayling given that it is so obvious he has disappeared.norfolkandchancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04285686982180455825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-84820694192035451782010-04-09T19:26:40.263+01:002010-04-09T19:26:40.263+01:00I don't think the Tories need to take any lect...I don't think the Tories need to take any lectures from Labour about spending plans not adding up.<br /><br />After 13 years of Labour Government all their spending plans have added up to is a £180 billion pound annual deficit, in an economy which they believe is so wedded to public sector spending, that a £6 billion cut now would throw it back into recession.Eddie 180https://www.blogger.com/profile/13431191567949672191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-83875519124836567762010-04-09T19:22:25.245+01:002010-04-09T19:22:25.245+01:00I wonder if he'll get an answer.
Looks like L...I wonder if he'll get an answer.<br /><br />Looks like Labour have been well and truly exposed over this issue.<br /><br />Good. <br /><br />Lying bar stewards that they are.Silent Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12586061220673855660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-55720618299826696452010-04-09T19:16:50.173+01:002010-04-09T19:16:50.173+01:00What a great letter. I think I wrote a letter like...What a great letter. I think I wrote a letter like that quite recently that resulted in a 'resignation'...Nullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14097211775158236323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-39468232023354070732010-04-09T19:11:29.986+01:002010-04-09T19:11:29.986+01:00Anyone else noticed how the drugged up cretins at ...Anyone else noticed how the drugged up cretins at the BBC have tried to firstly ignore then kill the Twittergate story? No mention the BBC news at all that the sainted Sarah would have read those tweets.<br /><br />On another matter I notice that the ONLY TWO so called businessmen to come out in support of the Liebour NI rise both work at the BBC. There's a shock!!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10574081059364644191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-36180338504294242402010-04-09T19:05:39.530+01:002010-04-09T19:05:39.530+01:00Osborne will cut 40,000 jobs from public services ...Osborne will cut 40,000 jobs from public services (how many from my local hospital?) so I really don't see that he's got a leg to stand on.<br /><br />By the way, please come and support public services at the march and rally in central London tomorrow. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.10410demo.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://www.10410demo.co.uk/</a>richard.bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589364986804437392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-47487350651472886942010-04-09T19:04:28.584+01:002010-04-09T19:04:28.584+01:00Well, looks like C4 News are going for the jugular...Well, looks like C4 News are going for the jugular, asking the conservatives to release the document from the so called experts explaining where the exact cuts can be made and why haven't they been published to the voters when they have the document themselves... evading the public is the Labour retort right now.... watch this space... Conservatives on the back foot tonightRammie1962https://www.blogger.com/profile/09774683935837514299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-35468340134790708422010-04-09T18:53:06.861+01:002010-04-09T18:53:06.861+01:00Dear Iain, I'm not criticising for once, lol. ...Dear Iain, I'm not criticising for once, lol. This is a really good posting. In this way, and step by step the socialists can have the life squeezed from their miserable lives.john in cheshirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00179825507377423624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-27628004141371397612010-04-09T18:35:14.124+01:002010-04-09T18:35:14.124+01:00...good reply......good reply...Kitchenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10170063602928897185noreply@blogger.com