All state jobs are funded by sucking wealth out of the productive part of the economy. Ergo, cut these and more cash is available to actually increase wealth. Sure there wil be dislocation, but state jobs are not created in the “magic money bag” State spending comes from somewhere and it would go elsewhere (such as making credit available to companies instead of the government hogging it all).

And it’s not like we have much of a choice to be honest, unless the Weimar republic beckons, and that didn’t really end well.

I think you’ve just demonstrated why the Tories will be a disaster, once again, in government. Everyone in the public sector – including doctors, nurses and teachers should fear a Tory government and losing their jobs.

Reply: try reading what I write and understand the figures. No nurse, doctor, teacher is at risk from the Tories and to say otherwise is a typical Labour lie.

This is Cameron’s chance to clear the Party of the Old Guard – the Squire-ocracy who have no understanding of ‘normal’ peoples’ lives.

If he let’s them get away with claiming expenses for swimming pools, moats, chandeliers, horse-manure (how apt); domestic servants etc ….. then the Tory Party will sink like a stone.

He should be demanding they all pay back the money they have mis-appropriated, seek resignations – and if they’re not forthcoming, withdraw the Whip.

Constituency sizes were set in the days before email; before most constituents even had cars. With modern communication methods, there is no reason whatsoever why Constituency sizes couldn’t be increased to an average of 120,000 or even 150,000 people.

If the next Parliament is going to be demanding austerity from the rest of us and cutbacks in Public Spending ….. all entirely necessary …. then it should start with Parliament.

Their behaviour is morally repellent and conniving, and in many cases criminal – but I guess it’s going to be deemed ‘not in the public interest to prosecute’, eh?

The very least they should be expected to do is pay back what they have stolen from the tax-payers pockets. How about putting their ill-gotten gains into a fund for, oh, lets say refurbishing the almost-slums some of our service personnel are living in, between putting their lives in danger at the behest of these gross pieces of work.

I suggest that cutting transfer payments is difficult – you would raise the shout of hurting the poorest (even when removing benefits from people on median income). Cutting the payroll of the biggest employers (NHS & Education) is also problematic when one goes beyond a few administrators. Cutting regional grants (even though they are a waste of money) is politically tricky (though the Tories have less votes to lose than Labour on this one)

The major changes are long-term. A pay freeze, reduction in pension obligations and abolition of many quangos. But most of all, what is required is a fundamental change of attitude to government. It most be from the Socialist sole-provider of uniformity, to a financier of pluralistic solutions. The NHS & Education should be the biggest and first candidates for this.

Finally, we should look at the productivity of the state sector, and the effectiveness of the provision.

Reply: Cutting transfer payments can be easy than you suggest – by cutting them only for future applicants, not present recipients. Cutting business grants is the easiest,as these are very unpopular with all the competitior businesses not receiving them.

It breeds State reliance which is what the present Prime Minister (a closet Commumist) wishes for as many people as possible, that is why I am convinced everything is made as complicated and as expensive and inefficient as possible.

The problem that he is now finding out, is that there are now too few people who are creating real wealth to pay for it all.

Hence we print money and borrow future tax revenue

Yes, thank god for the wise government….

(Hint: probably best if you imagine that in an ironic voice)

But at least my taxes pay for non-jobs

People shouldn;t have to work 40 hrs per week, live should be about spending with your friends and family, and if Big govt didn’t steal our wealth we wouldn’t have to.

These civil servants should be out doing proper work with which we can trade with other nations.
No I don;t mean teachers, police, armedforces and nurses, I’m talking about all the Non Jobs.
I went for some carreers advice, so I went to one office, they told me to go to another office, who then gave me a list of organisations to contact like the bank of england, etc asking them for a JOb.
so at least two offices were completely unnecesary.
Big Govt is simply a way of keeping us enslaved and downtrodden, and controlled with regulations whilst stealing our wealth to pay for the priveledge.