Dominik Grambon
The Guardian, Wednesday 5 May 2010
As the General Election campaign entered it's final hour, David Cameron sought to galvanise support for the Conservative party by providing details on how the UKs spiralling budget deficit would be slashed under his leadership. Backed by a new report from the Office of National Statistics, Cameron proposed removing MS Paint from public sector workers computers in a bid to increase efficiency. "The governments own figures show that annually, at least 970,000 hours of public servants time are spent drawing pictures in MS Paint, at total cost to the taxpayer of £8.6billion pounds."
Senior Labour officials pointed out that they had already set stringent targets for reduction in thumb-twiddling during the next parliament, and dismissed claims that MS Paint usage could be significantly reduced below 2005 levels without resulting in significant damage to the fragile economic recovery. Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor noted that their proposed Pixel Tax on workers earning over £50,000 per year would reduce unnecessary MS Paint usage by 50%, whilst lifting more than 80million UK households out of poverty, but journalists declined to listen.
The Guardian, Wednesday 5 May 2010
As the General Election campaign entered it's final hour, David Cameron sought to galvanise support for the Conservative party by providing details on how the UKs spiralling budget deficit would be slashed under his leadership. Backed by a new report from the Office of National Statistics, Cameron proposed removing MS Paint from public sector workers computers in a bid to increase efficiency. "The governments own figures show that annually, at least 970,000 hours of public servants time are spent drawing pictures in MS Paint, at total cost to the taxpayer of £8.6billion pounds."
Senior Labour officials pointed out that they had already set stringent targets for reduction in thumb-twiddling during the next parliament, and dismissed claims that MS Paint usage could be significantly reduced below 2005 levels without resulting in significant damage to the fragile economic recovery. Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor noted that their proposed Pixel Tax on workers earning over £50,000 per year would reduce unnecessary MS Paint usage by 50%, whilst lifting more than 80million UK households out of poverty, but journalists declined to listen.
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