Tories conciliatory on Whitehall spending cuts

Waterways News Snippits

  • Conservative efficiency plans will not lead to compulsory redundancies in the civil service, George Osborne has said.

“We’ve set aside a very considerable amount of assets,” Osborne said.

“James identified, for example, the non-canal properties of the British Waterways Board. So we will use the sale of these assets – £5.9 billion in total – to pay for voluntary redundancies.

“We’ve worked out that this provides for an average redundancy package of £68,000 and that will mean that of the 235,000 total civil service posts we will remove …………….. “

£5.9 billion!

I just hate to read stuff like this I really do.  I feel that nothing is being put back into the Inland Waterways..  such as BW Marinas desperately needed to take care of the hundreds and hundreds of boats just moored up along the canals for a start… canal projects, links etc etc…. £5.9 billion!!!!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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