Axe the Blob
SOARING numbers of Government pen-pushers have been a massive drain on the public purse.
Worse, as the Civil Service has ballooned, productivity has collapsed.
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Slashing 80,000 unnecessary jobs over the next two years would save the Chancellor £5billion while protecting services, according to a report by two senior mandarins.
Their findings are damning.
Tens of thousands of workers hired for no reason; salaries way over the odds; work being done in duplicate.
Depressingly, there is now one member of HR staff for every one-and-a-half civil servants.
And while private sector workers struggle to save, gold-plated Government pensions mean some will earn more in retirement than in their jobs.
That can’t carry on.
The brutal truth for the Tories is that they lost all control as the workforce grew to its second largest ever.
Labour — desperate to reduce spending — must ignore the protests of their union pals, and cut Whitehall back down to size.
Glass houses
KEIR Starmer is well within his rights to criticise Nigel Farage’s new policies.
But the Prime Minister and his Chancellor would probably do better to concentrate on delivering solutions themselves.
The PM accused Reform of offering “fantasy economics” and compared its plans to Liz Truss’s disastrous mini Budget of 2022.
Yet rowing back on welfare and giving unions huge pay rises has left Rachel Reeves facing a black hole of her OWN of anything between £30billion and £60billion.
The best way for Labour to take on Reform’s surge is by delivering economic growth and putting money back in voters’ pockets.
That means finding ways to cut taxes — not imposing even more.
What rights?
THANKFULLY a compensation claim made by the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber has been thrown out.
But how did Hashem Abedi’s sickening demand over “equality rights” ever get so far?
Time and again, the State has rolled over for his terror-loving family.
Hashem received £350,000 in legal aid — despite refusing to come to court.
His suicide bomber brother Salman raked in tens of thousands in benefits and student loans while plotting his outrage.
Even after being jailed for 55 years Hashem was given a cushy kitchen job, only for him to brutally attack guards.
Let this be the last time this monster is ever indulged.
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