It may as well happen sooner rather than later. The Conservative party will form the next Government, so their plans deserve some scrutiny, and I had better get used to nonsense coming from the them in Government and give them a hard time about their piffle. The Tories are proposing an National Insurance rebate for Businesses who "take someone off the unemployment register" of £2,500, funded from the "£8,000 it would have cost to keep them on the register [for a year]."

Well. I suppose as a tax cut it is at least a sensible tax-cut, aiming at the right place. 6/10 plus a gold star for effort, Cameron. But why the stipulation that someone must have been on the register for 3 months? Surely that means that business have an incentive to delay hiring. Surely it creates discrimination against those self-reliant people who only sign on when they've run out of savings?

Why not just make it a "thank you" from the Government for hiring at all? Make it for all newly hired workers to avoid any perverse incentives (and simplifying administration, allowing the firing of a few Local Government, and inland revenue drones).

Of course tax cut is not "paid for" by not spending £8,000 in JSA. It is a choice between not getting £2,500 in tax, and spending £8,000 out of increased borrowing. The way to "pay for" this tax cut is to fire a Diversity outreach co-ordinator on £32,000 per year losing £8,171.71 in Tax and NI revenues, and costing up to £8,000 should the Diversity outreach co-ordinator remain unemployed for one year, but saving the balance of £23,828.29 - a net saving of £7,656.58. One fired Diversity outreach co-ordinator should therefore "pay for" 3 newly hired workers in the private sector.

This saving would be raised if that Diversity outreach co-ordinator spent less than a year on the Rock 'n Roll, and was productively re-deployed in the private sector, where their tax would be a net gain to the exchequer. Of course he, or she (thank you, Brian) would have to learn skills which are actually useful, rather than bully on order to NuLab's PC agenda, and this level of re-skilling might not be possible without re-education camps. Perhaps better to assume they merely rot on the dole, eh?

Tax cuts are pointless unless they come with fired Diversity Outreach Co-Ordinators. A Point I shall continue to bore everyone with in the coming months and years.