ok - can someone please explain this........

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apart from the blatantly obvious that they were talking bollox..........

Osborne to consult public about spending choices

then 9 days later

In Full: The projects axed or suspended by government

now I know we have short summers here and I guess the sun of the last few days could be classed as "summer"...........

but come on - who is REALLY surprised that they didn't actually do any consulting before slashing a lot of things that appear to be affecting those at the bottom of the pile (

I thought that too, TAF, when it was on the radio. What was the point of setting an emergency budget then 5 days before hand announcing all these cuts?

I do agree with some of the cuts btw, like the Stonehenge visitor centre & agree that Labour should never have promised the loan to the steel company or promised the new hospital when it was clearly going to dig a deeper debt hole, but I do object to the projects for helping people back into work being cut.

Fuck that's a long sentence

These are just the start of the cuts - they'll be asking us which we like best granny or ships next......

Consultation is just a big heap of nonsense. everybody always thinks the best cuts are those that don't affect them but clobbers their neighbour who is doing x wrong......

yes I agree with all of that long sentence mumble.

There is some awfully unnecessary spending listed on there.......but some of it is going to hit the very people that they're expecting to force back into work

These aren't existing projects. They are planned projects which Labour didn't have the money for but promised anyway.

The coalition will consult on cuts to existing projects.

See past the rhetoric. The leftists at the BBC shout "hospital funding cut" but look closer. There is an existing hospital there already - this was funding for a massive new building. Can we afford that?

Look at the £80m loan to Sheffield Forgemakers. No existing jobs are at risk - that is for a new project. And it works out at £400k loan per job. How many more jobs could be created for that price? And they haven't even got any orders for their products! If this makes good business sense then they will find private finance.

mumblechum The future jobs fund is terrible. It exists to massage the employment figures - it has an appalling record in getting people back into stable work.

We need people who are unemployed to get real jobs, not make-work jobs.

actually some of them already had a least some of it up and running

"Six month offer recruitment subsidies: £30m
For people on Jobseekers Allowance for six months - it included new short-term training places, recruitment subsidies for firms employing them and more support for people to start up a business."

exH had a sheet to give to potential employers about money they (employers) would get if they gave him a chance (in a nut shell - actually more to it than that but it was months ago I last read the stuff and it doesn't actually affect me now)

What was the point of ever asking the public in the first place? The whole point of democracy is to elect officials to make decisions on spending on our behalf, so I'm not quite sure what the whole "public consoltation" pretence was all about. Just glad that they're getting on with it now and clearing up the fiscal nightmare that Labour left for us.