the director of the institute of economic affairs he says that austerity measures aren't a recipe for economic growth but they are a prerequisites mark littlewood why are stairs the measures so necessary but what we actually need is to get the economy back into some form of balance we are living a normal slee be on the mark it's and actually all of the talk about austerity in the united kingdom is somewhat misplaced and that might be the political rhetoric but if you actually look at the numbers it is the british government's intention to add six hundred billion to the national debt over the course of this parliament that's to say they're going to spend six hundred billion pounds sterling more than they bringing in taxes and that's austerity i wouldn't like to see us and we can see by looking around the world will that everybody talks about the global economic crisis actually this is in very large part by western economic crisis caused by debt and i think that one of the lessons that we can draw from it is that spending

money don't have is not a route to economics elevation we have to begin to try and balance the books that doesn't solve everything but it is a prerequisite so what you're saying is the government's trying to implemented stary say but failing what's unbelievably curious about the government's rhetoric is talking as if they're taking a chainsaw to public spending that this is going to be the biggest package of austerity this is really going to hurt it's a bit like going to a dentist and the dentist saying to you this is going to be very very painful surgery on really really sorry but you're going to have to suffer it and then delivering a pinprick this is if they're sending out mood music to the money markets is if they're trying to pretend they're being tough but the actual figures suggest nothing of the sort so the kind of austerity that you're talking about what would that look like to the ordinary man on the street. well i resent the term austerity

there's a danger that the political debate is now configured in do you want austerity or do you want growth i want growth but i think that living within your means at government level is necessary to achieve that so i don't buy this austerity versus growth i don't buy the idea that we should only make cuts when the economy starts growing i think we need to actually get the government out of the way to allow the economy to grow it would be as if you were in a hot air balloon and so you were only going to throw the whites out when the balloon takes off no you actually need to throw the whites out in order to let the bloom take off put that into perspective for me what does it mean in terms of schools and hospitals which is what we think about when we talk about government spending. at the national health service which the government in my view when it's in its total economic unwisdom for political reasons has a ring fence the national health service so we have probably the most socialist health care system in the entirety of europe not only privatized overnight

and there's a pilot in britain as if there's only a point to retreat you want to have a national health service all the american system i don't much like the american system but i think that we have to be aware that cradle to grave health care for virtually any illness or plight that you any individual suffers from is simply not affordable or if we want to afford it then we're going to have to see enormous rises in tax chancellor george osborne talking about cutting ten billion pounds from the welfare state all those kinds of measures kissing the poorest and media in our society. i'm not persuaded by that argument toll really what we're saying with regard to the british welfare state since it was set up now looking back near the best part of sixty years nearly since the beveridge report which was established the founding principles is that we need a welfare safety net that is provides what beverage himself described as

subsistence levels of support and only ideally for a temporary period of time what we've actually seen with the quote for the welfare state is it's nearly impossible to imagine a person in british society who doesn't qualify for some sort of welfare support you might have housing benefit even if you're in work if you've got any kids you qualify for child benefit you may qualify for tax credits if you're a low earner it goes on and on and on we have universal benefits for the elderly if you are a multi-millionaire in your seventy's you get a free bus pass you get a winter fuel allowance one affluent individual said to me he'd like to use winter fuel allowance to help him to heat is indoor swimming pool this is not a welfare state it was a neutral originally imagine this is a welfare state that has got totally out of control but covers nearly all human activity so i think you could slice it back and focus it on those who really need it let's say for the sake of argument the bottom ten percent of the population

they're all there are parents rather than spreading this huge bill over virtually every part you recently led a panel discussion entitled fifteen ideas to transform britain about encouraging enterprise in this country and the ideas put forward by a number of m.p.'s in three of them were put forward by you i'm just going to go through them with you and if you could tell me what you mean by each of them the first is supercharging startups. what what we mean by supercharging startups is to make it easy for somebody who's got a business idea to begin to get off the grant in the ladder of building a business before last few rungs of the hardest the biggest decision is how do i take on my first employee for example what sort of barriers to i face you're immediately hit by all sort of complex tax rules i want to make it easy for somebody who has a great idea almost you know at three o'clock in the morning to begin to get their business off the grant your second i dare is rewarding our educators and it's

agreed really almost universally that our teachers aren't paid enough is that what you mean. i'm not sure that it's true that teachers are paid enough by the way but i don't really know what teachers should be paid so that there are two changes that i'd like to make the first is to allow profit into the system if you can run a fantastic school which you know teaches kids you know mathematics english and the rest i have no problem with you making a profit for what is a fantastically useful exercise for the next generation but i'd also like to make sure that teachers are employed and remunerative in the way that people are in the private sector so rather than teachers being on the back which are set in some sort of smoke filled room in watchful between politicians bureaucrats and trade union like individual schools for science mr bloggs is a great history teacher we can't afford to lose him we've got to give him a playwright's and schools will have to make decisions of course you know are you

going to spend the money on perhaps building a better chemistry lab and better sports facilities or are you going to spend the money on trying to bring in better quality teachers those sort of decisions which every day you're faced in private sector companies should be faced by those one in our schools as well we've talked a bit about the welfare state that your third i dare is winding down out of work benefits seemingly just when people need them the mideast. i don't think that it's true that people who need them the most at the moment are not advocating anything here which is even as extreme as what bill clinton brought in in the united states of america and it's two things firstly i'd like to see benefits begin to be told limited the assumption the assumption this is going to apply in all cases but the assumption is you need a short amount of help you've suddenly lost your job you need a little bit of help to talk through perhaps for six months or so maybe for a year before you find another job that's the concept behind and you need to work hard in those few months to find another job but i'd also like to like to bring

into the fact that you would be eligible for community work because what's happening at the moment with the government is that by all royally addressing a ludicrous problem in a welfare system which is that some people are actually better off claiming welfare benefits than they are taking on the job they take on a job that's not particularly well paid suddenly all these benefits get guillotines and before you know it you're working forty hours a week and you actually have less money in your pocket than you would do if you filled in some government forms that's not but i think there needs to be another problem that needs to be tackled and that's if you like the leisure but if your choice is to work for forty hours a week for let's say twelve thousand pounds a year or to stay on welfare doing no work for eleven thousand pounds a year although it would be true in that circumstance that you would be better off in work you might not want to do forty hours a week work so it's in my view that if the community tax payers are coming to you all right and providing you with the money that you need so three square meals that i pay your heating bills have a roof over your head then it's reasonable to expect you to put in some work to the

community clearing up litter in the park scraping for thinking off walls and the like and where this is being trialled in wisconsin in the united states of america it had a fantastic dynamic effect what happened was we didn't suddenly have huge squadrons of unemployed people scraping away what actually happened was these unemployed people suddenly inspired to. and following real jobs in the private sector and lo and behold those vacancies usually at the lower end of the incomes scuttled looking for people to work in fish and chip shops or balls or or restaurants those suddenly got filled so i think it's a win win over actually encourage a work ethic and encourage a mentality that would get people who have been out of work into the labor market what about the effect of the economic situation in the european union on the u.k. where herring that is a very great is forecast this year in the e.u. what impact will that have on u.k. has holds. well there's no doubt at all that you know however one wants to blame

all praise the united kingdom government they're not monsters of power interestingly entirely and i fear actually for the next there's a radical change of course in the european union countries and the western economy as a whole then not percent growth is going to have to be something that we get used to so let's hope that that's the worst of it and we don't actually say a full scale eurozone crisis because when william hague said that joining the euro might be a bit like entering a boning building with no exits well perhaps he was right but nevertheless the united kingdom is sitting in the porch and if that voting building goes up we will definitely fail a substantial and highly negative side effect of that little bit thank you very much thank you.

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hello welcome to the sports and these are the headlines summit battles just going to go top with a late to one when it correct why angie suffer a two one defeat at ruby on a day of crunch matches in the russian premier league. while no turkish delight maria sharapova again loses at the hands of an imperious serena williams at the end of season finale in istanbul. and getting closer sebastian vettel clinches a fourth straight win up the indian grand prix to extend his title lead over commando along with three races to go. first to football where tears guy came from a goal down to grab a late two one win at in-form tarek and go top of the russian premier league brazilian i also put the chechen side to head off the beaten keeper igor acting fair to the new york post just eight minutes it. wasn't keisuke honda volleyed in

a cross by guy you'll be sure nick off to level matters midway through the first half. and with just two minutes to go pontus yvonne bloom headed home to finish off a free kick by fellow swede rasmus el as the army men went a point clear at the top of correct stay force. for me while angie dropped to second and saw their seven game winning streak come to an abrupt end after two undefeated rubin the home side took a fourth minute lead through alec whose mean but swiftly equalized courtesy of top scorer at the scene a try or a gentle giant nicked his seventh goal of the campaign. however because i have made it to want to regain with a cracker from just outside the box after twenty minutes and that's how it stayed as that kazem side raised to seven. while in the early kick off do not leave for old opponents of at all into eleventh. after a one the win in a rain site match just outside moscow russia striker alexander corey netted the

winner after thirteen minutes kevin gorani was the provider have now won four out of the last five most used to shrug off a disaster start to the season. while on saturday campaigns in h.k. from behind to win three two struggling iranian alexander courage and also his early penalty save by keeper the tally good idea but that the new bistro made amends on the follow up as we try to split you cite to believe thirteen minutes then but two strikes within ten minutes from bloody near ha's in both and free kicks meant it was the home soil to lead at the interval but the mates who won their last three games overall levelled with twenty minutes to go through cocksure coffee. with full time approaching the russia star made the most of a defensive mix up to clinch his second victory three two to see the champions go for just two points of top spot what's the bottom line your invite only two points of the really gay sions i. follow you of all good moved off the bottom of the table

but remain in the drop zone after being held to a one one draw with cousin of the substitute shut out of the law for the home side ahead after sixty two minutes as well go for their second straight league victory but fifteen minutes later another sub we have common in levelled with a heavy club to ensure the points were shared. while mordovia slipped to the foot of the table after losing to let spots like a good auto strike just before the interval gave the moscow side the lead. and guillotine off second after sixty four minutes court goalkeeper unawares wrapping up a comfortable two no victory to finish the week a fifth in the table. while england on sunday substitute at the end and as netted the second half when as manchester united sealed a controversial three two win at nine month chelsea to claim their first league victory at stamford bridge in a decade. i haven't the reason only goal and robin van persie strike put united in charge but chelsea equalized to one another and i mean as either side of the

interval then branislav evanovich and surprisingly fernando torres were sent off and then there's brad united's winner to see them go second a point behind the believe this one elsewhere papists these days last minute strike gave newcastle a two one win over west brom talk of go fourth after beating second bottom southampton two one and a last gasp luis suarez winner political was ruled out after everton had come back from two goals down to draw two to an eight hundred citing those who signed darby. so wonderful finish. we should have this issue of these. and it will sort of deserve to be in a brilliant one for us instead. of history it's a part of the same term i'm very proud to look at my young team today in a real cauldron of an atmosphere and stood up to everything going to very very experienced team and it was another terrific straightforward force. and stan is now and maria sharapova has lost to serena williams in straight sets as the american

security third w t a championship title at the season ending event in istanbul while the three williams didn't face a single breakpoint and eleven aces as the wimbledon and us open champion storm twenty six four six three victory in an hour and a half the only two times when sure africa has overcome serena was to clinch the wimbledon and top championship grounds back in two thousand and four while there was joy for the russian jew of an idea but the robot and rear kirilenko the french open runners up where the last to qualify but they sealed the biggest doubles title of their careers after wrapping up a six one six four victory in istanbul beating the czech pair of underwear a bunch about as you see credits go. down to motor sport and double defending formula one champion sebastian vettel has won his fourth straight grand prix in india to increase his lead at the top of the driver's standings with just three races left the german took the checkered flag almost ten seconds ahead of former

leader philander along so as his red bull team mate mark webber completed the podium the mclaren zero of lewis hamilton and jenson button and fifth respectively vettel is now thirteen point two of a long slope with a total of seventy five available in the last three outings commune reichen and is a distant. land on the bikes in the renzo has reclaimed his motor g.p. crag the yamaha man finished second at the australian grand prix behind retiring casey stoner the outgoing champion started from pole to win his home race for the sixth consecutive year while second place was enough for the renzo to seal his second title in three years after fellows finally done it crashed on the second lap britain's cow crutchlow came in third on the day for his second podium finish of the season but florencio is unassailable at the top of the standings with just one ways that next month though the twenty five year old praised his rivals. only we know. how difficult this to five with plays like danny and before we fight that is

like. play gone be very hard no you must be very consistent. never make a mistake always going to finish the race is. golf now in sweden spent a hansen has held off world number one rory mcilroy to clinch the b.m.w. masters by a single stroke in shanghai hansen led by one stroke going into the final round and a poor start for mcelroy saw him trailing by four after thirteen holes however the northern irishman eagles the fifteenth and birdied the next stage in the fight right hand side just about par the seventeenth. on the final hole has been plugged into the rough around the edge of a bunker but the thirty five year old chips to within ten feet of the pin all right away bogey of the day mark the one failed on the birdie attempt and still keep his cool second title of the season and a million dollar win this chip. fine until

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