Saturday, 19 June 2010
Clockwork Orange.
It usually takes a few years for our Leader to develop this level of arrogance:
David Cameron has warned the public sector it must take its fair share of the cuts burden. Unions are angry that the Government will target public sector workers
It is thought public workers will face a pay and pension squeeze in next Tuesday's emergency Budget.
The Budget is expected to be the toughest in years with the Government launching action to tackle the record £155bn deficit.
The annual £180bn public sector pay bill and pension schemes - the cost of which is set to triple to £9.4bn over the next five years - will be targeted.
However, the Prime Minister said there was no agenda against public sector workers.
"There are three large items of spending that you can't ignore and those are public sector pay, public sector pensions and benefits," he told The Times.
"We revere and want to stand up for people working in the public sector.
"There is no animus against people because they work in the public sector. It is just a question of how do we best deal with this budget deficit in a way that is fair."
Welfare payments are also expected to be squeezed.
But Mr Cameron said that was not enough: "There is no way of dealing with an 11% budget deficit just by hitting either the rich or the welfare scrounger."
Mr Cameron said the formulation of the Budget was a "collective process" within the coalition with the Lib Dems.
"I pay tribute to the Liberal Democrats. I didn't predict that we would come together and agree properly robust fiscal action but we have, and that's all for the good," he said.
The PM would not be drawn on which taxes will rise in the Budget but insisted that any hike in capital gains tax (CGT) would bring only "some modest additional revenue".
Meanwhile, business leaders have warned against a large hike in CGT after a report suggested that such a move would reduce the amount of money the Government receives.
The one striking a pose second from the left
is our Leader David Cameron.
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