ENGLAND HAS A NOVEL IDEA.

Budget deficits are common place in the Western Nations. Especially, England where they are trying to extract themselves from cronic budget shortfalls.  However, as we have consistently recommend cuts in services, jobs, wages and pensions, it felt that we are an island by ourself.   But we have found a politician willing to make the hard choices.  And that politician has similar ideas as TNBTP. He is the incoming Tory Finance Czar of England who is taking aim at the lucrative Public Pensions. Please note that the Conservatives are a couple of months away from  taking charge, but from all indications they will win the election to be held by June 2010. This is music to our ears and we hope it is to yours too. We also hope this spreads across the big pond. Why not hire a Public Pension Czar with a scalpel made of Japanese steel. Bring on the Samurai! President Obama, to quote Rick Santelli, "are you listening? " 

To Quote George Osborne who is planning to take charge of the Treasury in Whitehall, England.  

" Mr. Osborne says that if his party wins an election, the bulk of savings will come through reducing government spending. The party is in the process of going through individual government departments to see where savings can come from. Still, Mr. Osborne says that he "has not ruled out tax increases."

An area of public spending the Tories are looking at for long-term debt-reduction measures involves government contributions to public-sector worker pensions. The issue is a sensitive one, which when brought up by the Conservatives late last year triggered a round of criticism by the country's unions. With Britons living longer and wages rising, the U.K. currently has an unfunded pension liability that may exceed £1 trillion, Arbuthnot Banking Group estimates. One way to bring this down is to lower the contribution of the government, analysts say.

"Public-sector pensions do need to be reformed; we don't feel bound by any deal done by the Labour Party and the trade unions, the so-called Warwick Agreement, on this," he said. Government and union representatives struck the Warwick Agreement in 2004 to protect workers on issues such as pensions and workplace safety. "

A congratulations to a true deficit hawk. He, no doubt, sees the trouble ahead.  A true Patriots, an Englishman no doubt, who has a vision and plans on making it come true.  Socialism in England may be going the same way to extinction as the dinosaurs. We will hoist a pint of good old English beer in toast to this Englishmen.

 

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