Mind the gap IT is simply not sustainable for a Government to make the public sector richer as the private sector gets poorer. It is a blueprint for stagnation, plummeting living standards and higher unemployment. But that increasingly looks like where we are headed.
One quarter of the council tax you pay is now hived off not to fund social care or bin collections or to fix potholes but to pay staff’s already lavish pensions . The argument for those has vanished. Because their wages are also now six per cent higher than at private firms.
READ MORE SUN SAYS Despite this rapidly widening gap, State productivity is FALLING — as this high-tax Government leaves the private sector to foot the bill for everything. Labour’s promises — to be laser-focused on growth and get value for taxpayers from every single penny spent — are in danger of looking like sick jokes. Boats bilge IT is now self-evident that “ smashing the gangs ” will not end the small boats crisis.
But then it was only ever a buzz-phrase crafted to pretend the Government, having scrapped our only viable deterrent, had an alternative. Most read in The Sun The illegal migrants keep coming, at an accelerating rate. The total is now 150,000 —— more than the entire population of Blackpool .
Labour axed the Rwanda scheme solely because it was a Tory idea which offended their liberalism. They didn’t want it to work — and admitted they would axe it even if it did. What are they left with? Endlessly seeki.
