Axe Trident & ID cards – public spending cuts waiting to happen - Ken Livingstone

An excellent analysis by Ken Livingstone, writing in the Guardian about the Conservative Party’s economic prospectus. “Public sector pay and pensions have literally nothing to do with the deterioration in public finances yet the Tories want to make them the scapegoats.”

“Wasteful public spending, that does nothing to benefit either the economy or the population, should be cut – the Trident programme should be abandoned, defence spending cut to the same share of the economy as Germany, ID cards and other grotesquely expensive gimmicks should all go.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/07/conservative-conference-cuts-investment-growth