Except small government has always been a liberal position, but that position got partially hijacked by Thatcher's tories who never really managed to implement it effectively despite all the rhetoric.
My main objective with any cuts is to reduce doubling up--someone on minimum wage pays a lot of tax that has to be processed by someone, then claims back a bunch of tax credits that has to be processed by someone else. Why not simply not take the tax in the first place?
Like I said, semantics to a large part and ultimately there can be savings (ID cards, number of MPs in the Commons daft doubling up) etc without the efficiency stuff, it's a matter of whether you actually want to do something.
Classic example of things like Govt IT projects, the new Number10 website costing £100K for something I'd have got done for no more than £2K and still been happy with the project, Welsh Office site costing £500 p/m to host for something that I could get hosted for £50/year, etc.
Effectively, just because right wing Govts have done something in the past doesn't make it a right wing policy...
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Except small government has always been a liberal position, but that position got partially hijacked by Thatcher's tories who never really managed to implement it effectively despite all the rhetoric.
My main objective with any cuts is to reduce doubling up--someone on minimum wage pays a lot of tax that has to be processed by someone, then claims back a bunch of tax credits that has to be processed by someone else. Why not simply not take the tax in the first place?
Like I said, semantics to a large part and ultimately there can be savings (ID cards, number of MPs in the Commons daft doubling up) etc without the efficiency stuff, it's a matter of whether you actually want to do something.
Classic example of things like Govt IT projects, the new Number10 website costing £100K for something I'd have got done for no more than £2K and still been happy with the project, Welsh Office site costing £500 p/m to host for something that I could get hosted for £50/year, etc.
Effectively, just because right wing Govts have done something in the past doesn't make it a right wing policy...