The latest way DEFRA intends to save money: a £300 million "voluntary retirement" scheme to any DEFRA employee over 50 who wants to jump ship. There is much jostling on the decks. As one insider, quoted by the Evening Standard comments: "They can't believe their luck. There are retirement parties all the time stretching into next spring. It seems an odd way to save money but no one is c...

Iain Dale is wasting money, and needlessly polluting the environment. He is driving around in his new Audi on Britain's roads without a water booster. Figures given on the www.waterboost.co.uk website, show that he could save himself a lot of money, and cut his emissions at the same time. If his desire to save money is not strong enough, then maybe his environmental conscience will get the btter o...

That would be Jerry Reed's "You make it, They take it" Income tax man’s a-knockin’ at my door And yellin’ money, money (money-money-money) Income tax man’s a-yellin’ for some more Money, money (money-money-money) [Chorus] ‘Cause when you make it they take it (money-money-money) You make it they take it (money-money-money) You make it they ta-a-a-ke it, they...

Over on Burning Our Money, Wat Tyler addresses the issue of money laundering and the ludicrous (and ineffective) legislation which now requires us to jump through hoops to prove our money is actually ours. It's worth noting that this legislation was imposed on us through the EU and came about as the result of the emergence of the euro currency - a system whereby a number of different banks, p...

George Osborne claimed £40 for DVDs of two of his own speeches on 'value for money' for taxpayers. Which is quite lovely.

Unheeded by most, Tony Woodley of the T&G Unite is still crying in the wilderness, and what a plan he has got: "Our priority must be using that public money to save jobs and skills, not to fund redundancy". By public money, he means money extorted from the productive parts of the economy, I think. "We desperately need to see creative, strategic action to save jobs, such as job sharing and ...

It appears that the Glorious Successor may soon have to save the world once more. The banks, which have absorbed almost forty thousand million pounds of taxpayers' money in the past few months, in return for being politely asked to start lending money again, have decided they'd rather just take the money, thank you very much. Accordingly, "options presented to the Treasury are thought to include

Streets across Britain are being left in darkness as town halls cut back on lighting to save money.

Plans to axe scores of quangos will not save money or improve accountability, MPs have warned today.

Sixteen magistrates and county courts in Wales are to close to save money although two will be reprieved, the Ministry of Justice has announced.