You can watch a dreary debate between Miles Templeman and Will Hutton from the Channel 4 News, starting at 10 minutes 14 seconds into this clip - if you can be bothered. It's the usual blah from Miles about "cutting the bloated public sector without hurting frontline services" and the usual blah from Will that "cutting spending now will plunge us back into recession".
Right. Why does Miles Templeman stoop to this? Why didn't he just point out that Will Hutton is the personification of the "bloated public sector"? Will was announced as 'Head of the Work Foundation think tank", for example.
How cool would it have been if Miles had waved a set of The Work Foundation's 2008 accounts at the camera and pointed out that out of total income of £4,808,000 (see P&L, page 19), ninety per cent of it comes from other government departments? And then asked Will who the highest paid employee was, the one falling into the salary band£170,000 - £180,000?
Wednesday 16 September 2009
[Missing the killer blow] Miles Templeman vs Will Hutton
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Why?
A cynical person might think that MT is hoping that he will get on board the gravy train due in next. If so he is unlikely to highlight the fact that others are on the gravy train before him.
Anon, an even more cynical person might think that now that Will Hutton is an 'advisor' to EDF (who will be spending oodles of money on new nukes, hopefully), people in business want to stay friendly with a potentially lucrative source of income.
Where's there's a Will there's a bloated pay packet!
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