To recap, Indian bicycle marketing is my way of describing the way that the two main parties pretend that their more-or-less identical policies are somehow ideologically different. At the moment, they are bickering over whether to slow the growth in State spending by "a bit" or by "not very much". Commenting on the Tories' spending plans, the Chancellor had this to say:
"Some [The Tories] seem in a hurry to cut services. We are focussing on cutting costs."
Notwithstanding Labour's atrocious record of increasing costs without any improvement in the quality of services and their intention to increase State spending by at least ten per cent, this turn of phrase actually suggests that the Tories will continue Labour's policies of providing worse and worse value for money, or, alternatively that the Tories are motivated purely by malice and aren't planning to do this at least in part on behalf of the longsuffering taxpayer, which seems unlikely.
Luxury Crackpottery
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Under the current system State spending is merely a euphemism for transferring spending from the reciprocal wealth creating people that earned it, to bureaucrats to allocate.
The Tories weren't much better. They never made the news, but I knew of 3 or 4 large computer projects that were ridiculously expensive.
The main thing about the tories is that they just did less.
The Tories are no more brave than Labour. They will not rock this boat, which is very low in the water. When they see the state of the books there will be a wailing and gnashing of teeth from numbers 10 and 11 downing Street.
But they will continue to hock the future for past mistakes. They will not be brave enough to follow in Bulgaria's footsteps.
"Some [The Tories] seem in a hurry to cut services. We are focussing on cutting costs."
Just have to shake the head at that. It's a rarified atmosphere at Westminster.
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