http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/11/22/you-read-it-here-first/ Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Wokingham Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:36:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/11/22/you-read-it-here-first/#comment-27869 mikestallard Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:03:39 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=2150#comment-27869 You have indeed been saying these things. You have also been saying that the support of the banks had to be as temporary as is humanly possible, because the government cannot support them financially for very long without running into both financial and political trouble. I want to add that the government should immediately start a severe cut back in public spending. Nurses, doctors, teachers, policemen, soldiers, health visitors, midwives, social workers are, we are told, in very short supply (actually on the streets, in hospitals, schools, etc.) There are indeed very few Indians. But there are a lot too many Chiefs getting in their way and tripping them up. We saw both at Harringey and in the BBC how the red tape is actually preventing the few remaining people at the front line doing their job. We need a clean out at Head Office in all the major services. The Chiefs, at the moment, are increasing at a rate of 50,000 every time you look. No, we do not need a "Restrictive Bureaucracy Board" (RBB) or a "Red Tape Tsar" (£170,000p.a.). We actually need the bureaucracy cut back now, before the election. Montgomery did this by instituting PE every morning at 6 a.m. for the staff. JP Morgan, the great American financier, did it by turning off the heating in his house. Ulysses Grant did it by driving out all the ladies of the night when he took over from General Hooker. Perhaps Mr Cameron might bring in all these measures at once? You have indeed been saying these things. You have also been saying that the support of the banks had to be as temporary as is humanly possible, because the government cannot support them financially for very long without running into both financial and political trouble.
I want to add that the government should immediately start a severe cut back in public spending. Nurses, doctors, teachers, policemen, soldiers, health visitors, midwives, social workers are, we are told, in very short supply (actually on the streets, in hospitals, schools, etc.) There are indeed very few Indians. But there are a lot too many Chiefs getting in their way and tripping them up.
We saw both at Harringey and in the BBC how the red tape is actually preventing the few remaining people at the front line doing their job. We need a clean out at Head Office in all the major services.
The Chiefs, at the moment, are increasing at a rate of 50,000 every time you look.
No, we do not need a “Restrictive Bureaucracy Board” (RBB) or a “Red Tape Tsar” (£170,000p.a.). We actually need the bureaucracy cut back now, before the election.
Montgomery did this by instituting PE every morning at 6 a.m. for the staff. JP Morgan, the great American financier, did it by turning off the heating in his house. Ulysses Grant did it by driving out all the ladies of the night when he took over from General Hooker.
Perhaps Mr Cameron might bring in all these measures at once?

]]> http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/11/22/you-read-it-here-first/#comment-27853 evil g Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:27:43 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=2150#comment-27853 If the government immediately sold bank assets that they hold, would they not be selling at an enormous loss? If the government immediately sold bank assets that they hold, would they not be selling at an enormous loss?

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