The Guardian\’s got a \”cut your own budget\” gadget that you can play with.
Quite dangerous really, but the time I\’d had a go the budget seemed to be about 3 pence and I was going to raise that by charging any MP who wanted to propose a law a fee for the privilege of doing so*.
*Sadly, their gadget doesn\’t actually allow you to be this radical.
Typical Grauniad approach though… All the “selectable programs” were basically “front-line services”. No options to clear out the non-jobs and layers of useless box-tickers. I still saved 220 billion though! 🙂
You don’t get many options with healthcare spending, do you?
On the other hand, I think I just eliminated transport.
Even with the pathetic options available I cut £182.5 Billion, and that is without scrapping the NHS. Osborne is such a wuss.
I managed to get the spending down by about 200 billion, but where was the “Cut budget by 100%” button? The only chance I saw to abolish a department entirely was to cull the NHS. What about the dross at the Scottish Office, or the Department of Comics, Finger Painting and Rounders?
Nor could I increase the piano wire and lampost budget.
I started with a pretty wet approach and got £130bn.
Anyway, with all this devolution thing, surely making Wales, Scotland and NI raise their “devolved funding” locally would give you £59bn straight off.
BTW, the sun’s shining in Kent this morning.