Cut if you want to

So bellow Labour to the Conservatives. Yet it is nothing but white noise. The British political and financial economies are way beyond being able to choose cutbacks. They have become an imperative.

The issue now is which areas should be cut. All departments are rightly going to be defending their budgets and indeed jostling for more money. It goes without saying that more money is not, and cannot, be an option on the table if we are to be serious about bringing Britain’s books back from the brink.

Aside from the white noise, however, there is another fundamental flaw in the debate thus far. This is that the focus so far seems to have been on which departments will be spared and which will suffer. Should the focus not instead be on intra-departmental cuts? For example do we need all the managers? All the quangos? All the Whitehall writs?

Let us put the rah-rah rhetoric away and start delivering results.