Labour’s economic policies are difficult to understand at the best of times. At the moment, however, they’re twice as hard to follow because they are in polar opposition  and in such stark contrast to one another as to be laughably chaotic!

There’s the Treasury and Alistair Darling saying that we need to make spending cuts and then there’s Prime Minister and the rest of the Government who seem to just want to keep on spending your money.

Ed Balls is saying that education spending will carry on rising while Alistair Darling is saying the complete opposite.

Then there’s Peter Mandelson who is saying that it’s too early to make cuts, while at the same time cutting more than £300 million from his departmental budget.

Wild spending cuts are not good for anyone. What we need now in this country is to eliminate waste; anything we don’t need, let’s get rid of. We need the NHS, we need a strong educational system, we need to defend ourselves, but at the same time, we need to reduce our deficit before our entire economy collapses. The simplest way of doing this is not to slash 20% from this budget and 10% from that, but to stop managing the budget from the top down.

Does the Chancellor know what the Royal Gwent Hospital needs more money for, and where it could afford to take cuts from? Of course he doesn’t. We need to cut public spending, but let’s not destroy generations of progress in doing so. Give Aneurin Bevan Health Board a budget and let them control it. They know where to make their own cuts.

If you want to find out more about Labours wildly inconsistent plans for cuts and spending increases, have a look at: http://www.conservatives.com/labourchaosoncuts/

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