Council staff love to spend your money inefficiently and without proper checks and balances. The reason for this is simple; they have no business savvy, they have no natural predators to their organisation, just a captive audience of rate payers who WILL have to cough up come what may! They make no allowances for the pressures we are all under in this recession. It's a Tax and spend mentality with no regard for the welfare of the "golden goose" – the council tax payers! The service we get back just gets worse and worse to boot.
The Labour government are the masters of this sort of profligacy. I recently listened to a programme on R4 about the rise of certain council bosses to positions in national government, some even made it to high office. This public spending frenzy therefore comes as no surprize!
Seems like Brown is hell bent on bankrupting the country now that he knows he's loosing power in a few months time. He'll leave a monumental mess that his successors will have great difficulty correcting. This will make the worthy successors unjustly very unpopular. It's almost like an exact opposite to the way the Labour party benefitted from the great shape the country was in when they came to power. All due to the conservatives (as unpopular as they may have been pre-Tony Blair's premiership).
Did Labour really commit us tax payers to giving billions of pounds worth of overseas aid to help developing countrys develop green practices? (£8Bn) Did they agree to let the EU subsidy we used to get lapse, even though we are the worst hit country by the banking debacle and due to labour's own profligate public spending policy?
Judging by last week's pre-budget report, Mr Darling and Mr Brown clearly think the way to control this massive mounting debt with yet further spending! It's set to hit £1.4 Trillion pounds, a bill more than the one we ran up fighting the second world war! You can't keep employing council workers to get us out of recseeion. It's like using batteries to run a generator to recharge the same batteries – inefficiency will result in eventual failure. You produce nothing but waste.
Socialist ideals may be honourable in theory, but in the real world they don't work because they typically reward those who don't contribute and who are irresponsible. They disproportionately penalise the wealth creators and financially responsible individuals.
Also, it is patently unjust towards every British citizen (let alone those who foot the tax bills), by allowing destitute people to rock up from elsewhere in the world, to sign on and take advantage lavish benefits for which they have not paid a penny! Humanitarian ideals are honourable, but a soft system like ours just gets abused. We have enough enduring local problems to deal with before we take on the responsibilities of failed governments in other parts of the world.
With such ridiculous imbablances in benefits and what is fair, sensationalist headlines will abound and quite rightly so. Well done to any journalist who brings this to the attention of the British public!
Councils should exist to serve a local economy. Business and weath creation is what must come first, services second. If that economy is failing, the council services should be downscaled, just like any other business.
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