Many sources are predicting hundreds of thousands of job cuts in the public sector. These will be both expensive and unnecessary. Expensive because redundancy and benefit payments will wipe out any potential savings. And unnecessary because putting all public-sector managers on a 4-day week would save £100m a week – £5bn a year – more than would be saved by firing two hundred thousand frontline workers.
Cameron and Osborne are bumbling, self-serving fools who are about to cause misery for hundreds of thousands of families. What a disaster!