When a Plan is Not Working, Keep the Plan
Now in the wake of uncontrolled rioting in major cities, the Conservative coalition led government has come under attack for continuing budget cuts in law enforcement. The response of Mr. George Osborne, Secretary of the Treasury (no that’s not his title in Britain, but his title in Britain sounds pretentious and so The Dismal Political Economist will not use it).
Is This What A Safe Haven Looks Like to Britain's Government or Is it the "disaster" that would occur if major cuts in spending on British police services were not made? |
The chancellor insisted Britain was a haven in “the most dangerous time for the global economy since 2008”,
And as for any change in the policy to cut police budgets, Mr. Osborne
told MPs in an emergency Commons session that it would be a disaster to relax £81bn of spending cuts.
Besides, it turns out one can cut 20% of a police budget, and
after David Cameron faced more than two hours of Commons questions about the riots that hit London and other English cities this week, with many MPs demanding the scrapping of plans to reduce police budgets by 20 per cent. Mr Cameron insisted the cuts were “totally achievable without any reductions in visible policing”,
Can't See the Police That's the Invisible Part |
That’s right, you can cut police budgets 20% with reducing “visible” policing. See, all of the reductions will be in “invisible” policing, and since no one can see “invisible” policing, it won’t matter will it?
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