Boris: Cut the nonsense not the investment
Boris Johnson says 'nonsense not investment' should be victim of public spending cuts
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Monday, 05, Oct 2009 02:24
By Matthew Champion.
Boris Johnson became one of the few conference season politicians to discuss public spending cuts when he said it was "nonsense" that should face the chop.
The London mayor addressed the Conservative party conference today under the theme of Fixing our Broken Politics: Ready for Change.
All the major parties have reached a broad consensus on the need for cuts to government spending, but critics said the specifics on where the cuts should be made were conspicuous by their absence at the Labour party conference in Brighton last week.
Mr Johnson waded into the debate by calling for outright cuts to what he called "nonsense".
Last week it emerged two female officers at the Metropolitan police had been stopped from babysitting each other's children because they were not registered as childminders.
The government has ordered a review of the case after Ofsted warned the women could be prosecuted for being in breached of the Childcare Act.
Offering his own unique take on the issue the mayor said: "If it were up to me I would cut the babysitting monitoring department; I would cut the babysitting monitoring department action day; I would cut the babysitting monitoring department human resources section.
"Get rid of this nonsense but don't cut the investment essential to the UK economy."
Mr Johnson added his belief that he saw the City as just as essential to the UK's economic recovery.
He urged "all you banker-bashers out there" to "trust in London", which he said would lead the country out of recession as it had done in the 1930s.