A load of Balls

Have all the main party politicians lost their senses. Now Ed Balls has joined the list. The last thing we need to do is to cut jobs and reawaken the slumbering recession. Part of the increase in borrowing is caused by the recession, a drop in tax revenues and an increase in benefits payments. Both of these will come down as the recession recedes, trying to force it down artificially would just make the situation worse.

If Ed Balls really wants to cut costs here is one simple proposal from an educational manager, do not introduce any new or changed plans! Perhaps closing down his department and returning power to local government. One final thought on this, when I was first a school governor financial control was with the local authority but then the Tories devolved many activities. So now each school has to have someone to run the finances, someone to worry about employment practices etc. So there has been a vast increase in bureaucracy in schools with jobs that were done in local authorities.

Another way to cut expenditure would be to significantly increase the minimum wage. The taxpayer subsidies firms that pay badly through benefits and and tax. If the minimum wage was made up to a decent level this government subsidy would vanish and so cut public exppenditure. Of course the bosses would oppose this but why would they give up their share of public expenditure.