Are Public Services the 'Nu' Enemy?

Some of your answers here prove that the propaganda is working.

People are ready to accept that public services should be cut because they have been told they are overstaffed and over resourced and that public servants are paid better than private sector workers.

Bullsh*t, all of it. These people will happily call for other people to be sacked, but won't be too happy when they lose their jobs. The government, for reasons of its own, is engineering a recession. The private sector will suffer in the collapse as well.

It depends what you mean by "public services". The simple fact is that the Government is in dire straits and if that leads to a radical rethink of what part the Government should play in the life of the nation that can only be for the good. Just because certain "services" and "benefits" have been provided in the past (largely on borrowed money that we now can't afford to repay) doesn't mean they and the jobs of the civil servants who administer them are sacrosanct. It's not a case of public services being the enemy any more than the miners and steelworkers were the enemy in Thatcher's time, it's simply reality setting in after thirteen years of Nu Labour living in cloud cuckoo land on money we didn't have.

Roger.

Would it be a lot to ask if we just dropped the Labour/Tory/Lib Dem $hite too whilst we are at it? This isn't a competition just so you know. It does not really matter who you hold in high regard at this particular time. Surely you cannot possibly defend hundreds of overpaid a$$holes employed at Whitehall, HNS, and the local councils?? Public sector workers are not the enemy, but the amount of overpaid consultants and quangos give the rest of the public sector workers a rather bad name don't you agree?? At the same time you have a barrage of conflicting info coming from BBC, Sky News and all the rest who are just to happy to jump on the bandwagon with their sensationalist $hite before anything has even been set in concrete so to speak.

Point I am trying to make is this. 'Ant & Dec' promised transparency and accountability to the point where they asked the public where the axe should fall. It would be rather foolish of a coalition to go against the public opinion especially after they asked for an opinion to start with. It would result in a backlash of epic proportions if Dave and Nick decided to play the rest of the country for fools.

If you are still not with me, I would have no problems making a personal apology to yourself and everyone here in CE as well as to admitting that I was totally wrong. However what I suggest is that we just wait and see what actually happens before we start ripping each others head off in a debate that only seems to divide us.

I also agree with you on one thing, sacking 40% of overpaid MPs without any golden handshake payouts or pensions would be a better option. Having said that however, I think both of us are sane enough to realise it will never happen.

no Nu Labour were the enemy, having plundered the riches that this country still had and threw it all to the wall. Suggest that look at figures for people who worked in private sector who have lost jobs over these many years, do they cry and wail that they should be protected because what they do is so important. No, they have no choice but to get up and try and look for another job. Suggest that you look at all councils, schools, hospitals, who employ so many now, that have absolutely no role, other than to take taxpayers money. The NHS is a leviathan, and needed pruning a long time ago. I don't need to read any redtop nor indeed any paper for that matter, as have seen it with my own eyes. Councils that pay heads and their underlings a fortune for doing what exactly, shuffling paper, and directorships on boards of these money absorbing trusts, why can't we have system where each hospital has one manager, and then just employ the people you need, doctors, nurses, and their associated staff. Having been in hospital myself i have seen it completely change from where staff cared, to one where they are not allowed to, health and safety regulations have put paid to that.

How many actually employed in public sector now, some suggestion were up to 6 million, those people would be getting pension deals, pay, that often does not apply to private sector. I know because i was with my partner long enough and he would have walked away with a small fortune in pension and pay off had he not passed away.

NO I think people not getting Involved are though, they don't help the community they only hurt it, so maybe now with New Prime Ministers Clegg and Cameron things will change for the better.

To start with David Cameron does not have the power or authority to sack any MP secondly most Public servants do work hard get your facts right

everyone has to make cutbacks

why not the public services also

they are not a protected service

do the workers of the public service cry out when other people loose there jobs

NO WAY

I was under the impression that it was foxes and electric gates that were public enemies.

why not public services

they are overstaffed anyway to many managers and meetings