Facebook users may be given a say in budget cuts

FACEBOOK users may have an input into where budget cuts fall, the Finance Department has suggested.

With the Government desperate to find another €3 billion worth of “savings” in the December budget, ministers are watching with interest a new British initiative to get public involvement in fiscal belt- tightening via the internet.

David Cameron’s Liberal-Conservative administration has struck a ground- breaking deal with Facebook to encourage ideas from voters on where to cut state spending.