BBC News - Spending Review 2010: Key points at-a-glance
- About 490,000 public sector jobs likely to be lost
- Average 19% four-year cut in departmental budgets
- Structural deficit to be eliminated by 2015
The 2010 Spending review key points BBC News - Spending Review 2010: Key points at-a-glance
It's got to be cut end of! I have done my personal whinging but there is nothing that can be done about it. At the end of the day it's our generation (if not us personally) that got greedy and caused the mess so we have to fix it, grin and bare it and get on with it! My only fear is if the private sector can take up the slack and the volume of job loses these cuts could cause. I know the immense struggle some of my ex-colleagues had finding work after the big R hit - I can only see this getting much much worse 
The one I'm angriest about doesn't affect me personally (if you want to know I'll tell you but it might be better in the Rants section), but I'm very aware that if I wasn't such an exceptionally jammy git then I would have been sliced to ribbons by this review. As you can imagine, this makes it hard to view the issue dispassionately... The thing about most government services from welfare to defence to the NHS is that it might not affect you personally for 99% of your life but by the gods, when you need it, you NEED it, and you need it to be already there, and already working, and already ready to catch you. What would I have done? Well, I'm no economist. But I would have made Vodafone pay their VirtuallyMary |
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