tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29618513.post3753555137545134973..comments2023-09-13T09:59:36.013+01:00Comments on snowflake5: Government spending over timesnowflake5http://www.blogger.com/profile/14700425293614182769noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29618513.post-42989995240153046832008-10-16T15:16:00.000+01:002008-10-16T15:16:00.000+01:00I saw this and thought of you..http://www.dailymai...I saw this and thought of you..<BR/><BR/><BR/>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1077954/Gold-plated-pensions-paid-public-sector-workers-soar-40-20billion-20-years.html<BR/><BR/>The Pensions Policy Institute report revealed that unfunded public sector schemes for teachers, NHS staff and civil servants were projected to soar by 40 per cent over the next 20 years.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Perhaps the PPIAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29618513.post-90557348780681297162008-10-02T15:08:00.000+01:002008-10-02T15:08:00.000+01:00P.S. Not sure where you get your £101 billion for ...P.S. Not sure where you get your £101 billion for quangos. The NHS costs £101bn to run at 7.5% of GDP and it's the largest item in the budget. <BR/><BR/>You could pretend that the people administering the NHS, and state pensions and welfare payments etc are one big quango and can be abolished - but actually they are essential workers. The service won't run without them.snowflake5https://www.blogger.com/profile/14700425293614182769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29618513.post-11894537650882975582008-10-02T15:00:00.000+01:002008-10-02T15:00:00.000+01:00broncodelsey - you can abolish all the "zoos forum...broncodelsey - you can abolish all the "zoos forums" you want, but it won't cut costs of quangos as long as new ones are introduced in their place. And your mate Osborne mentioned new quangos in his speech - eg the "budgetry oversight quango", which will duplicate the work currently done by the Commons Select Committee on Finance, the treasury and the BoE. And then there was the quango he would snowflake5https://www.blogger.com/profile/14700425293614182769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29618513.post-58525815336224693102008-10-02T14:45:00.000+01:002008-10-02T14:45:00.000+01:00Snowflake5 - Osborne seems to have something about...Snowflake5 - Osborne seems to have something about the bank of england not being nationalised. <BR/>If you look at his comments about Northern Rock and Bradford and Bingley he keeps flipping on it.<BR/>In his response to B+B he argued against nationalisation because it 'risks' tax payers money but somehow believes that his solution of putting B+b in the BOE does not involve tax payers money.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29618513.post-6500669911131107582008-10-02T10:39:00.000+01:002008-10-02T10:39:00.000+01:00I don't think anyone would miss the Zoos forum,Cul...I don't think anyone would miss the Zoos forum,Culture East midlands,British potato council,British wool marketing,Covent Garden marketing,West Northants Development council or indeed the Thurrock Development corporation.<BR/><BR/>Or do we really need the Carbon trust that gets £ 85 million to advise business and government bodies to become low carbon when £ 22 million is handed over to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29618513.post-12153711589676982802008-10-02T02:27:00.000+01:002008-10-02T02:27:00.000+01:00Harry Flashman - those are the cost of the state p...Harry Flashman - those are the cost of the <B>state pension</B>, - y'know, the one every citizen is entitled to. <BR/><BR/>Public sector pension liabilities are separate in their own hypothecated funds - the state pays a contribution, which comes out of general government spending, the employee pays a contribution, from their paypacket, they amount goes into a fund administrated by the governmentsnowflake5https://www.blogger.com/profile/14700425293614182769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29618513.post-11736751244660184952008-09-30T13:12:00.000+01:002008-09-30T13:12:00.000+01:00Look at those pension liabilities !Time to scrap a...Look at those pension liabilities !<BR/><BR/>Time to scrap all final salary pensions for all public sector jobs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29618513.post-35297269364005298262008-09-28T23:04:00.000+01:002008-09-28T23:04:00.000+01:00broncodelsey - quangos were set up under Thatcher,...broncodelsey - quangos were set up under Thatcher, and she tried desperately to cut back, and they grew and grew. If Thatcher couldn't do it, Cameron with lesser ability won't be able to either.<BR/><BR/>And don't forget that demographics are moving against you - older populations not only mean more spent on state pensions, but more on the NHS, as most healthcare is consumed by the old in the snowflake5https://www.blogger.com/profile/14700425293614182769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29618513.post-15489139932788355302008-09-28T11:21:00.000+01:002008-09-28T11:21:00.000+01:00Cut spending on the £100 bn a year spent on quango...Cut spending on the £100 bn a year spent on quangos,many of which are duplicated and the main function appears to be to provide jobs for reject politicians and their supporters.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com