Josephine is likely to think that 'cutting the public sector' is a good in itself. Regardless of the fact that no money is actually saved because the government just hands the money out to its nasty corporate/Eton mates.
I laughed like a drain at the new Parenting Classes thing. An old Eton boy wants to make some money, so the government gets right behind it. But sod doing things like improving childcare, to actually really improve the lives of families. And driving single mothers into poverty....great idea for the country as a whole eh? Bound to save money on the care bill, crime, etc.
We are becoming a punitive, carceral economy like the US. Money 'saved' on ctting benefits and basic social care will be spent on punishing the poor, cheap schemes designed to hand public cash to corporate crony friends of the government, and a massive increase in the number of prison places to accommodate the starving and increasingly likely to be criminal masses.
This is the future Daily Fail readers want and they're going to get it. They are too idiotic and hate-blinded to realise that only a tiny minority of 'taxpayers' will benefit from this...the ones who actually don't pay tax, because they already siphoned their funds off into offshore companies and banks.
The country is deeply sick and although I hope Labour will improve things, I frankly doubt they will. It was Blair and Brown who brought in welfare reform; although at least they realised that to get single mothers out to work it is a good idea to provide childcare.