Proof of our Government’s profligacy with our money just keeps coming, from the government, itself.
Brown and Blair between them pulled the biggest confidence trick ever on the British Public, and it seems a big chunk of the electorate still believes the con. Brown and the Labour party rank highest in the polls on the question “which party do you trust to look after you?”
Ken Clarke explained in terms a 5 year old could understand how when Labour took over in 1997 government spending equated to 38% of GDP. This year it will be the equivalent of 50%.
Back in the 80′s everybody with even a passing interest in economics knew the magic number for government spending was 40%. We’d seen the phenomenal growth of the economies in the USA and South Asia and been able to compare it with the decline and fall of socialism across Eastern Europe.
Everybody understood Governments feed themselves first, and when they’re allowed to keep growing the private sector gets progressively more hungry. It only stops when the international money men relegate the currency to junk status, and ultimately everybody starves.
Somehow the British public fell for the same con as their forebears did in the 60′s and now we have to go through another Thatcher Revolution.
When will we learn – ultimately every socialist (Labour) government runs out of money. They shouldn’t be allowed to run a sweet shop, let alone the British economy.
More than £1 billion of taxpayers’ money has been spent restructuring government departments and quangos in the past five years with no tangible benefit, the public spending watchdog says today.
The National Audit Office (NAO) reported that the Government had reorganised 91 departments since May 2005, at an annual cost of £200 million. The document also showed that 25 central government departments had been created since 1980 but 13 of these no longer existed.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, led by Lord Mandelson, has been reinvented five times since 1983, when it was named the Department for Industry.
In what will be seen as a clear warning to David Cameron, the NAO said that each restructuring cost an average of £15 million once staffing, pay, rebranding and new premises were taken into account.
Millions of pounds have been spent redesigning logos for buildings, stationery and websites, while thousands of human resource managers, IT consultants and finance officers have been drafted in to help to manage the changes. Each time a department merges or bits are hived off, redundancy costs soar.
After studying the 51 biggest reorganisations since the election in May 2005, officials estimated that the average annual cost would have been £200 million. Once the remaining restructures, largely involving quangos, were factored in, total costs would have been at least £1 billion
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