Thanks to everybody who took part in last week's Fun Online Poll:
Who gets the most cash from the UK government?
Welfare claimants and OAPs - 11%
Public sector workers and pensioners - 29%
Nominally private sector businesses (whether for goods and services supplied or as subsidies) - 60%
Sixty per cent of you were correct; that type of spending is about 40% of UK government spending. If the UK government really wanted to make cuts, that is the place to start.
It would also appear that the second largest item is welfare and pensions* spending, but not by a huge margin, it's a bit more than 30% (but no more than 35%) and the total salary and pension costs of six million public sector employees is a bit less than 30% (but no less than 25%).
* Three-quarters of that is old age pensions of course, working age welfare is surprisingly small amounts.
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The comments to my previous post show that there is quite a divergence of opinion as to whether integral garages are a good idea (rather than having an extra downstairs room).
That's entirely a matter of personal taste and preference of course (for example, if you have motorbikes or bicycles etc which you need to store securely), but what's the majority opinion?
The only way to test this is to observe the real world and compare how many people have converted an integral garage into an extra downstairs room and vice versa.
Vote here or use the widget in the sidebar.
Fun Online Polls: Government spending & Integral garages
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