Given how Truss came across on those radio interviews (She sounds extremely dense and generally not interested) I'd be surprised if she even understands what is going on.
2022 mini-budget discussion
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No I said reducing the size of the state would help balance the budget because smaller public services cost less. You really need to stop taking things out of context. Cutting red tape makes businesses more efficient and that makes them more likely to expand and provide more jobs.
Sorry, not directed at you specifically - more of a "y'all".
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I’ve suggested something like this before, a Thunderdome subforum, if you will.
I think it would be worth trialing. Some people clearly want to argue about something so having a place they can go ham might pull them away from other threads. Would be a nightmare to moderate though.
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So which public services do you wish to cut after 12 years of austerity? Seems like Truss's team are going for the easy target, removing the triple lock pension. I suppose we could reduce the number of nurses, doctors and police as well.
Okay, can you give me an example of where you think we should be cutting public services, how much you think it will save, and explain why you think this will benefit us and the country?
Can you give me an example of the red-tape that you would like to see cut, and explain how doing so will make companies more efficient and lead to more jobs?
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WTF?
I think that was for thenewoc. Forum glitch again.
If the NHS and police were run properly you could certainly make savings in both by cutting out unnecessary wastage spent on tiers of employees that are not providing the front line services along with cutting back on capital expenditure projects. Plus cutting benefits for those that don't have a disability that would prevent them taking up work. I suspect there's a lot that could be cut at a local level too such as the cost of housing economic migrants. There must be a lot of money wasted by councils for council tax bills to be as high as they are or too many people are getting subsidised council tax bills, leaving an unfair burden upon those that are working in higher paid jobs.
It does sometimes. Maybe n111ck could answer anyway, but I doubt he knows.
40,000 nurses left or retired last year, many of whom weren't retirement age. Luckily we are replacing them at a slightly higher rate albeit with completely new and untrained ones that cost a lot of money to train and obviously drain the resources of the existing pool of trained nurses.
- NHS managers make up circa 2 per cent of the workforce compared to 9.5 cent of the UK workforce.
- In recent years the number of managers has been cut, at a time when the NHS is facing its biggest challenge.
- The NHS as a whole is under, not over, managed. However, persistent and misleading media headlines continue to claim that the NHS is overmanaged.
Is the NHS overmanaged?
An in-depth look at one of the most persistent questions on NHS management.
The size of the capital expenditure budget for Estates/Facilities/IT is also substantially below where it needs to be. Essential maintenance is not taking place due to lack of funding. https://www.theguardian.com/society...er-of-collapsing-will-not-be-fixed-until-2035
- NHS managers make up circa 2 per cent of the workforce compared to 9.5 cent of the UK workforce.
- In recent years the number of managers has been cut, at a time when the NHS is facing its biggest challenge.
- The NHS as a whole is under, not over, managed. However, persistent and misleading media headlines continue to claim that the NHS is overmanaged.
Is the NHS overmanaged?
An in-depth look at one of the most persistent questions on NHS management.www.nhsconfed.org
The size of the capital expenditure budget for Estates/Facilities/IT is also substantially below where it needs to be. Essential maintenance is not taking place due to lack of funding. https://www.theguardian.com/society...er-of-collapsing-will-not-be-fixed-until-2035
I've seen it first hand though to know. They don't need to be managers to be over inflated back end departments such as finance, HR and IT. There is a lot of waste including outsourced contracts for IT services.
So you're saying that we should balance the £37 billion cost of the mini-budget, plus the £65 billion cost of the BoE's market intervention as a result, by primarily cutting the budgets of the NHS and police.
So, just for the record, I think that's pants on head insane.
But for the sake of argument, lets examine it a little further; would you mind putting some numbers on how much you think should be cut from each budget and explain why you think that cutting those budgets is going to improve the country.
Also, I would still really like an example of the red tape you'd like to see cut.
Thats more doctors I thought. Nursing is just a ******* awful job and very poorly paid despite this. Certainly in my book.
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