Glad to see the real heart and soul of the conservatives coming out ahead of the elections in the UK. Forget about the touchy-feely David Cameron who is leading the party because this is what everyone has been waiting to see. It's the same old brutal tactics that got the right into trouble before. Leave business alone and chop benefits for children and hack government jobs, as if that will somehow solve the serious problems that the UK is facing today. Better to see this now than after the election because we all know how election promises get thrown aside. Reuters:
Britain should freeze state pensions for a year, scrap child benefits for middle-class families and axe one in ten civil service jobs to cut its growing budget deficit, a top business group said on Friday.Deficits are absolutely a problem but then again, isn't unemployment? What happens to the troubled housing and the banking industry when more people are on the dole?
In a joint report with low-tax lobby the Taxpayers' Alliance, the Institute of Directors detailed quick steps the government could take to save 50 billion pounds from its annual budget, which is forecast to be 175 billion pounds in the red during the current tax year.
