“We are doing the right thing to make sure that for the future as we move into a full recovery we will invest and grow within sustainable public finances – cutting costs where we can, ensuring efficiency where it’s needed, agreeing realistic public sector pay settlements throughout, selling off the unproductive assets we don’t need to pay for the services we do need”
The above words were spoken by Gordon Brown to delegates at the TUC conference in Liverpool today.
They describe what most students learn, in chapter one, of the guide book to running an efficient business.
So, why after all these years in power, has this government only just discovered how to run UK plc?
Time to man the lifeboats methinks!