The "How the government could save money" thread

[contractor79]

sell NHS, BBC. Sack a good % of people in govt authority non-jobs. Stop immigration.

there, sorted.

[The Lone Gunman]

Leave the EU





[where's my tin hat]

[OwlHoot]

Cancel the 2012 olympics, and the centralized National Health IT project

Have a "Bonfire of the Quangos". Most of these exist only to keep busibody campaigners and parasites occupied and make them think they're important, and in today's economic climate all their piteous howls and squeals at being kicked away from the trough would go unheeded.

[zathras]

I'll kick off - why not close the The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs? The government never takes a blind bit of notice of what the experts tell them anyway, so this looks like an unnecessary overhead to me:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7636896.stm

Get rid of tax credits and replace with a proper benefits system.
Get rid of ID cards
Examine the QUANGOs set up and see how many are really needed

Have a regulation bonfire - most of them are pointless and just cost money to enforce.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Remove the non contributory pensions from the civil service.

[The Lone Gunman]

Remove the non contributory pensions from the civil service.
Their unions have spent years arguing for parity with the private sector.

[snaw]

More a 'how the government could save us money', but get rid of about 75% of speed cameras. Greedy bastards.

[BrilloPad]

Sack Gordon Brown. All he does is makes things worse anyway.

[AlfredJPruffock]

1 Trident upgrade program - billions of UK taxpayers money being trousered by US millitary-indsutrial complex.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Shut down the Risk and Regulation Advisory Council - Gordon's answer to the criticism that H&S jobsworths were ruining everything was to create an extra QUANGO. Just shows how out of touch he is.

Oh and cancel the hideously expensive and unworkable ID cards programme, too.

They could also save money by not wasting it on buying Toyota Piuoss but keeping cars longer - this would be of more benefit to the environment, too.

[Ruprect]

I'll kick off - why not close the The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs? The government never takes a blind bit of notice of what the experts tell them anyway, so this looks like an unnecessary overhead to me:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7636896.stm