The State Giveth, The State Taketh...

A potential client of mine deals with Childcare Vouchers, which Labour introduced in 2005, last month they announced changes which will effect said clients business - for the worse.

Now apart from a salutary lesson on the wisdom of not basing your business on anything provided by the government, it just goes to show how little joined up thinking goes on in Browns, and Labour as a whole, excuse for a brain.

We've had Labour bang on about cuts damaging the economy, well here they are doing just that themselves! This will lead to redundancies, and some businesses simply closing up with their bosses moving onto the next profitable venture rather than hanging around to eke out the last few drops of cash from the vouchers. I'm sure those employees losing their jobs will remember this change fondly when the election arrives...

Of course if Labour hadn't taxed us all so much, I'm pretty sure people could've afforded childcare without relying on state handouts or vouchers, but of course that's not Labours Way. They prefer to take the money, then reallocate it in the most inefficient way possible (that means more state sector jobs), preferably via third parties (jobs reliant on the state sector) who take a cut. What starts off as a tenner is probably worth under a fiver by the times it's allocated.

You get a top-heavy, unwieldy state that makes everyone that much poorer, and one that, come an economic storm, struggles to keep upright. Labour, remember people to never vote them in again.