Open letter to Norman Baker.

"I accept that the funding settlement for local authorities from DCLG is challenging. It's good to see some councils are approaching this imaginatively, finding savings in procurement and council officers' salaries. However, some are just reaching for the axe."

Regional transport minister Norman Baker.

Showing yet again the difference between a Liberal and a Tory is the sniff of power.

I really wish MPs would have the nerve to tell the truth. Don't blame councils having to make tough decisions on them ideologically or lazily reaching for the axe.

I know that’s the plan, Lets lay blame for all the bad things on naughty councils so that you can reach the next election un-soiled by what you have created. Oh dear I’ve let the cat out of the bag.

The settlement, which some council’s have been enforced to take require cuts to services no matter how imaginative they are. Its fine if your in a conservative borough that is only facing a small 2% cut, but here in the north in Labour councils we are facing cuts of well above 20%. Independent of how well run or efficient they were before. I bet some councils wish they hadn’t bothered making efficiency savings over the last ten years as that hasn’t even been considered in the settlements.

I also like that fact that council workers contracts can be renegotiated to pay less at the drop of a hat yet banker’s pay/contracts are sacred. Have they never heard of market forces, people are paid what the market suggests is appropriate. Most Chief Executives are more than qualified to switch to the private sector and earn many multiples of their current pay, why should they take a cut, the same situation is true for IT staff, personnel staff, procurement etc.

Bloody ConDems

Science Spending Cuts.

So the ConDems want to cut the science budget, along with everything else. I suppose if your cutting education spending so scientists of tomorrow end up working at Tesco’s, you don’t need to fund scientific research. What Crazy Dave and his cronies seem to forget is The technologies of tomorrow are based on the scientific break throughs of today. They forget that you can’t always see the economic merit of some research, until many years down the line. Yet another ignorant selfish policy from our rich “friends” this one isn’t just stealing from the poor/middle to give to the rich like their other policies, they are literally selling this great nations future for profits today.

Tuition

Even worse now it seems that you need to be ultra rich to even aspire to a good education. Tutiton fees heading for £10k+ in the best Universities will mean at least Crazy Dave has managed to clear Ox-bridge of those damn talented poor people. At last these two ancient seats of learning will return to what they should be, a social club for public school boys while they wait to be given high payed jobs in the city by friends of their fathers.

Crazy Dave's cuts bonanza.

Yeeeeeee haaaaaaw! Howdy partners here at Crazy Dave's we pride ourselves on our thinly veiled hatred of public service and gosh darn God must love us 'cause he's given us one hell of a good excuse to sharpen our axe (not that we needed one eh partner.) So why not join us here at Crazy Dave's on the 20th October for Crazy Dave's cuts bonanza - all public services must go!!