UK's national debt is a staggering 90,000 pounds($133,000) per household. I have already announced more than six billion pounds in budget cuts. I plan to raise the retirement age under my Social Security system and abolish payments to parents of newborn children. I also aim to implement a work requirement for those receiving benefits.
One way we can bring in real accountability is through choice. Wherever possible, we want to give people the freedom to choose where they get treated and where they send their child to school - and back that choice up with state money. Because when people can vote with their feet, it's going to force other providers to raise their game - and that's good for everyone.
Another tool we must use is competition. By bringing in a whole new generation of providers - whether they're from the private sector, or community organisations, or social enterprises - we can bring in the dynamic of competition to make our public services better. That's what we plan in education. We will let any suitably qualified organization to set up a school, creating real diversity and real competition so there's real pressure to raise standards.
Of course there are some areas where competition and choice aren't possible. We understand that. So we'll do the next best thing - and introduce the principle of paying providers by the results they achieve. Rewarding people for work well done is a simple way of driving up standards.
There are some people who say we can't do this - that it's against the spirit of public services. I say: we can't afford not to do this. You wouldn't have a plumber round to your house and pay them for ruining your drains. Why should public services be any different?
So we'll pay welfare-to-work providers not just by how many they get into work but how many stay in work. And we're going to pay independent providers - and eventually prisons - by the levels of re-offending.
Sometimes it won't be possible to have choice, or competition, or to pay by results. But that doesn't mean we have to give up on bringing in people power. Here, we should have direct democracy. That's what we're doing with policing.
Instead of having chief constables answer to Whitehall, we will make them answer to police commissioners with a mandate to set local policing priorities. That mandate will have been earned through election - and those priorities will have been developed with the consent of local people. So police will stop looking to Whitehall for direction and start looking to people.
And whatever the circumstance, there is one tool that we will always try to use - and that is transparency. We're shining a light on everything government does, not just the pay, the perks and where public money is spent, but on how well that money is spent, too - on health outcomes, school results, crime figures.
That way people can see the value they're getting for their money and hold us to account for it. I know there are some people who think this is unfair. I'm sorry, I just don't agree. We are the servants of the people of this country. They are the boss. Where is it said that the boss is told they can't look at the books or know the pay of their staff? It doesn't happen in the private sector and from now on it won't happen in the public sector.
Basil Venitis, twitter.com/Venitis, points out there is a golden British revolving door for the movement of Anglokleptocrats between roles as legislators and regulators and the industries affected by the legislation and regulation and pullpeddlers. An unhealthy relationship develops between the private sector and British government, based on the granting of reciprocated privileges to the detriment of Britons, leading to British regulatory capture.
Venitis points out Tony Blair gets ten million euros every year from JPMorgan, just to pullpeddle its Greek-American president Jamie Dimon out of Greek jails for churning the nest eggs of poor Greek workers! His former ministers are not far behind. Steven Byers, a former transport minister, described himself as a cab-for-hire as he asked for 5,000 pounds(5,500 euros, $7,500) each day in exchange for using his influence with the government. Geoff Hoon, formerly defense minister, and Patrician Hewitt, formerly health minister, asked for 3,000 pounds each day.
Venitis notes the U.K. defense giant BAE Systems paid four billion euros in kickbacks to Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia for an eighty billion euros British-Saudi arms deal. The British government abruptly ended its Serious Fraud Office inquiry into BAE. The U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office has reportedly accused BAE of bribery in six countries, which should be enough to prompt an inquiry into whether BAE is in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a law banning companies that pay bribes.
Cabinet minister David Laws has stepped down from his high-ranking position in Britain's financial ministry after only 18 day in office, following revelations he had claimed more than 40,000 pounds(47,100 euros, $57,800) of taxpayers' money in expenses to pay rent to his gay partner. Laws was deputy to Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.
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