course he is again attacking the easy targets ..the welfare budget....
Easy?
nice little leftie thoughtspeak there, total ****, the welfare budget keeps growing under various governments, and has not ever been properly trimmed, with any talk of doing so threatening riots.
The welfare system is crippled.
To many people being given to much, and then some not given what they need because the first group is much bigger and bleeds the system.
HS2 is a one off cost, the £25 billion he wants to cut is from repeatable yearly costs, so HS2 is a drop in the bucket in that context.
He could of course get back anything between £40bn and £120bn annually (depending on whether you believe government or independant figures) from tax evasion/avoidance....
No not really.
That tax evasion is after they did everything they could to get that money, there will always be some degree of fraud.
The avoidance mostly consists of offshore accounts, and people fiddling with tax allowances, it will always exist unless you get rid of such tax allowances, which will do far more harm than good (discouraging investment and foriegn trade).
The rest is illigal activities (people not paying tax on black market goods).
It's easy to just blame the tax gap on the slimy tories doing double handed deals with their friends, but it's mostly nonsense.