Difficult, even eye-watering choices, Jeremy Hunt?
No, there is low-hanging fruit that experts, politicians and media folk routinely overlook, a field of public spending that consumes tens of billions to universal detriment. This public disservice somehow slips below the radar of public scrutiny. Even the National Audit Office has never investigated it.
Along with Today, PM et al, Newsnight’s economic editor, Ben Chu, only considered education, defence, the NHS and pensions as possible areas for cuts. Am I the only one to see the traffic control dictatorship as overripe for beneficial cuts!?
