toughest spending cuts in 20 years
 

In a dramatic shift in Labour's election strategy the Chancellor conceded the Government would have to go much further in curbing public spending than Gordon Brown has previously admitted.


are they finally admitting to the bust part of the equation ??"an end to the cycle of boom and bust" was a quote i remember from ex chancellor brown.



Mr Darling's comments provide fresh evidence that he and Lord Mandelson successfully used this week's Labour leadership crisis to secure concessions from the Prime Minister over the party's approach to tackling Britain's dire public finances.[ by dire i assume they mean bust]

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Re: toughest spending cuts in 20 years
 

In any Government where there's a boom there's got to be a bust. The pre recession spending couldn't carry on without something going belly up, someone on here said something about it a year before it all went Pete Tong, he got shouted down because there was to much money in the economy.

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Does that mean they are going to have to curb the employment of the black, one-legged, lesbian, dwarf community outreach officers?

I am gutted.

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No, they're very often funded from some European "inclusion" pot, or other such money. Not from council tax or the central government grant.

The cuts will be in frontline services, and frontline staff. The quality of the services provided will go down hill, which will in turn lead to resentment from the tax paying public.

Discretionary services will be dropped completely, and statutory services will be trimmed to the bone.

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Is it just me though or is this still not thw whole truth from labour. Now i concede i am extremely cynical these days because of the last twelve years but everytime labour has to admit something bad they only ever seem to admit half of it till forced to admit the rest. Either way it is clear they have known this for a while (well we all did) and it has yet again made a monkey of GB and what he has been saying upto this point.

Sorry i just want the election so we can relieve mr darling and gordon of the worry of having to deal with their own mess with the nice certainty that whoever gets in will in a few years be despised enough by the electorate because of what they will have to do to get us back on the straight and narrow that labour will be voted back in to balls everything up again.

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Yep, story from the Beeb.

To think they were at one time going to use 'Tory austerity' as a vote winner.

I suspect Darling / Mandelson have impressed upon Gordon Brown that denial, BS and attacking the social class of some of the opposition isn't a great vote winner and honesty does have its' place in politics.

They probably started trying to impress the point about honesty a while ago, must've taken some time to sink in given Gordon appears to have never quite gotten out of the cynical politicking and backstabbing that eventually unseated Tony Blair.

Actually maybe not. http://order-order.com/2010/01/08/go...om-the-bunker/

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Money that is still ours, seeing as we're a net contributor to the EU, but which we can't control because we hand it over to the Eurocrats. :mad:

Honestly, just think how much more control we'd have over our finances if we weren't saddled with that useless shower in Brussels.

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Oh you so didn't say that, recently read a book and did fact checking of the book. You're spot on, we'd have far more control and have a lower deficit :mad:

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First part of your post: True, but when the aforementioned people aren't employed by the bodies that are havng to make the cuts, it's not going to effect them. I may not have a job, but they still will.:mad:

Second part of your post: No arguments there at all:)

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HMG's spinners will only choose honesty as an option when their preferred strategy of lying through their teeth no longer serves their purposes!

The truth is that savage cuts are going to be made and jobs are going to be lost. That's the price we're going to pay for all the years of profligacy, borrowing, spin and denial.