David Cameron has vowed to end what he calls Labour's "spendaholic culture" of waste and show that "good government costs less with the Conservatives".

Speaking at the Welsh Conservative conference, the Tory leader pledged to save money and improve public services by cutting bureaucracy and giving decision-making powers to local communities and frontline public servants.

"Let me make clear: we are not offering a simple efficiency drive," Mr Cameron said.

"What we propose is something entirely different - something so bold and radical I would call it a whole new type of government.

"We're going to shape government in a way it has never existed before, so we use our instincts as Conservatives, our understanding of how people and communities really work and the latest technology to deliver more for less."

Mr Cameron highlighted plans to publish every item of government expenditure over £25,000 online as an example of how the Conservatives will crack down on wasteful spending.

"It will mean an army of armchair auditors will be crawling all over the books, scrutinising them and acting as a straitjacket on wasteful spending," he said.

"It will mean the minister who lazily signs off a monster contract without checking if he could get it cheaper will be caught out and will have to answer for himself."

Mr Cameron promised to "take apart the centralised apparatus of command and control" in public services, to allow doctors, nurses, teachers and police officers drive improvements to the way money is spent.

He attacked Labour spending by citing the £4.5bn annual cost of NHS bureaucracy, the £10m in tax credits wrongly aid to people who were dead and the £3bn cost of benefit fraud and error.

"Their spendaholic culture isn't a diverting amusement or a mild irritation - it is a complete outrage and we will obliterate it," Mr Cameron said.

Today's speech in Llandudno comes after a poll suggesting Labour had stretched its lead over the Tories in Wales to eight points.

The ITV Wales/YouGov survey put Labour on 37% and Conservatives on 29%.

A better system that stops waste is to allow departments to actually hold on to any surpluses that they generate. At the moment if they have any money left over that goes back to central government and next years budget is cut. So there is an actual incentive to waste it rather than it being cut off next years budget.

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He's complete and utter scum and a malignant growth on the arse of humanity.

He also has no concept of how small £25,000 is in the NHS, with treatments for certain eye diseases costing up to a grand per eye per treatment. What he'd do is "cut costs" by letting people go blind unless they could afford to pay for it privately. He's complete and utter scum and a malignant growth on the arse of humanity.

Gav, don't hold back. Don't be afraid to let it all out. We can handle it.

What the spending disclosure is for is to see if cleaning contracts or equipment purchases could be done cheaper. If the trusts had more members of the general public in and fewer appointees then there could be an end to the non jobs that are created.

I just agreed with Gav.....


... twice.

£25k is still bugger all, it is still only the cost of two cleaners for a year, assuming they're earning £12,500 a year.

What it will do is require a civil servant to trawl these contracts and publish them - costing another annual salary on its own. If they're being published in the local press, that's another few hundred quid, even up to a thousand depending on the publication. That tw&& is wasting money before he's even got the job.

What tw&&face is spinning but failing to notice is that the public sector has been downsizing for a few years already Clicky. There are already areas of work without staff to work on them appearing all over the place, so any cuts he makes are going to hurt people on the receiving end of these services. Clicky

Who let him in? Get the f**k out of my country you smarmy arrogant bastard, you're not welcome here. Your band of merry Eatonites have screwed us over once before and have done immeasurable damage to Wales that we're still trying to put right. He knows nothing about running the UK and knows even less about Wales.

He also has no concept of how small £25,000 is in the NHS, with treatments for certain eye diseases costing up to a grand per eye per treatment. What he'd do is "cut costs" by letting people go blind unless they could afford to pay for it privately. He's complete and utter scum and a malignant growth on the arse of humanity.

Not all managers are inept. Part of the problem is that many organisations promote people who are simply incompetent at a managerial level simply because they have seniority or know the organisation well.