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Likewise there are
21,000 people who are
earning over £60,000 a
year and are receiving
housing benefits, again
this can’t be right.
Cameron was going to
have the bonfire of the
quangos to save millions and all he did was
close some of them
down but the personnel
were moved to other
departments, how was
that saving money?
Now there is talk about
secretaries of state being able to employ hundreds of experts earning up to £84,000, who
will not have to be approved by the Civil
Servant Commissioners, to work in private
extended offices that
could comprise more
than 20 staff that already include civil servants, press officers,
and special advisers. If
junior ministers bring
in their own teams,
again this could be
open to nepotism. The
combined bill could be
more than £20 million a
year, this at a time

when we are being told
that departments are
cutting their budgets.
He has cut the army to
the bone that is now
making it probably impossible for them to
carry out operation depending where they
may occur in the world
in the future. Britain’s
influential position in
NATO and the United
Nations Security Council is being diminished.
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The scrapping of the
Harrier jets and the
Nimrod project that
was coming to fruition
was criminal scrapping
them with no return to
the tax payer, they
could have been completed and sold at least
the tax payer could
have seen some return
for their previous vast
financial outlay. The
fiasco over the BBC’s
spending, top people
were in many cases
paid off with twice
what they were legally
entitled to we had excuses that the monies
could not be recouped.

But there were going to
be draconian cuts to
stop this occurring
again and to save the
licence fee payers
money. They reduced
senior managers but increased middle management numbers and
salaries, how does this
save money? Again
who can we believe?
The only way to save
the licence fee payer is
easy scrap the licence
fee and let the BBC
survive in the free market. This would also
give the licence fee
payers a saving of
£145.50 a year for them
to spend as they
wished, and perhaps
boost the economy. The
BBC say that if the licence fee was scrapped
it would damage their
ability to make programmes well with
some of what they are
producing today this
could only be a good
thing.