Cuts overdue

2:08pm Thu Jul 22, 2010

Cuts in public expenditure are long overdue. It is sad to hear of job losses, but it is mystifying that civil servants and local government officials are shocked at being made redundant.

They must have known the Blair/Brown government borrowed excessively to fund quango agencies and create jobs with nonsense titles.

There will be little sympathy for public servants facing the chop to save the UK from bankruptcy. The Chancellor is justified in his actions.

Similar cuts should apply to local government. Transfer all services to county and city councils, and cull the rest.

Until this is done community and business taxes will go on rising and services will get progressively worse.

Bloated public sector pensions should be realigned to pensions in the private sector, especially as the national debt stands at almost £4 trillion, about four times higher than previously acknowledged.

— NIGEL STARBUCK, Carnarvon Close, Bingham.