As DK asks, why now?

Why now has Ed Balls announced that he could save £2 billion in education spending cuts? What has taken the Labour Party - who have been in power for over a decade - so long to work out they could make this saving? From what the ever odious Ed Balls is saying, they could have saved this country literally billions of pounds in the years they have been in power. Jesus titty-fucking Christ, Balls' statement shouldn't be applauded. It should come with a charge of criminal negligence and a demand for a taxpayer refund from those Labour leaders who have had anything to do with education spending in the past 12 years.

And if they have wasted that much money on easily identifiable waste in the last decade and a bit, just imagine how much they have wasted on other areas of the increasingly vast enterprises associated with the government...