With my TU hat on I thought it would be a good idea to check the budget out and see what the future held for public services.
The BBC website very helpfully has a collection of links to the budget report. So I clicked on the link for the complete budget report entitled 'Budget 2009: Building Britain's Future'. I didn't get the budget but a custom error message, the link had been blocked by my place of work. It gave two possible reasons...
It might link to a site that allows unauthenticated access too email such as Yahoo or Hotmail. Well I know that wasn't the problem it was a PDF document. The other possible reason was that the site may contain offensive content such as hate, sex or violence. I knew the budget wasn't going to be pleasant, but that is taking it a bit too far!!!
It made me laugh anyway ;-)
The BBC website very helpfully has a collection of links to the budget report. So I clicked on the link for the complete budget report entitled 'Budget 2009: Building Britain's Future'. I didn't get the budget but a custom error message, the link had been blocked by my place of work. It gave two possible reasons...
It might link to a site that allows unauthenticated access too email such as Yahoo or Hotmail. Well I know that wasn't the problem it was a PDF document. The other possible reason was that the site may contain offensive content such as hate, sex or violence. I knew the budget wasn't going to be pleasant, but that is taking it a bit too far!!!
It made me laugh anyway ;-)
At least I could access the link 'Chapter 6: Improving Public Services'.
It says quite a lot about what they have spent on Public Services but not how they have wasted the money. Far too much to summarise so I will leave you with a couple of quotes that relate to previous posts of mine.
Personally I think they are going to fail and waste even more money.
It says quite a lot about what they have spent on Public Services but not how they have wasted the money. Far too much to summarise so I will leave you with a couple of quotes that relate to previous posts of mine.
The Government remains strongly supportive of the value that private finance can bring to infrastructure procurement. In March 2009, the Government announced a public sector infrastructure debt-financing unit to provide temporary support for Private Finance Initiative (PFI) projects until market conditions improve, ensuring that vital projects in areas such as schools, waste and housing can proceed as planned. Projects in procurement with a total capital value of around £13 billion will be the immediate beneficiaries. The unit has recently reached financial close on its first project lending £120 million alongside the European Investment Bank and commercial lenders to the Greater Manchester Waste Development Authority's PFI project, ensuring that the £635 million construction programme can still go ahead.
Public Sector workers are at the heart of delivering world-class public services and supporting long term economic growth, prosperity and fairness. Public sector pay policy needs to be set in context of wider developments across the economy, where it is clear that the weaker private sector labour market has increased the reletive attractiveness of the public sector as an employer. In setting public sector pay the Government will continue to balance a number of objectives: recruiting and retaining a high quality workforce; affordability and value for money for tax payers; and consistency with acheiving the Bank of England's inflation target. In this context, continued public sector pay restraint will be important to support front-line service delivery.
Personally I think they are going to fail and waste even more money.
10 comments:
Is this what those statements refer to?Or thisOr perhaps this is where the money goesYou should know that the writer in the bottom left of the cartoon is Marx! That is precisely what is happening in the West, right nowThe actors behind the scenes know the west cannot afford this war, and stupid politicians commit our blood and treasure endlessly. Become an expat before exit taxes claim a portion of your house when you sell it!
Sheesh!
Well that got totally garbled!
There are 5 separate links there.
The links although I can only see four...
Link One
Link Two
Link Three
Link Four
Now I just need to go and read them ;-)
The missing link.
Oh my
It says quite a lot about what they have spent on Public Services but not how they have wasted the money.
And therein lies the problem.
Political whims too oten override financial prudence, a trait of the Tories as well as Labour
I agree with jams.
Iamhe - Some very interesting links there...
James - Yes, that is what I was trying to get accross - So much waste and so many areas where quite significant savings could be made.
Jams - So true, I think when people get in that position they forget the reason why they are.
Welshcakes - Me too :-)
Cherry,
Interesting indeed.
I have a friend of a friend who happened to be there at the time.
She knew the mother.
Now she doesn't want to know the mother.
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