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Perceived union mismanagement notwithstanding, cut to the chase and you get to the point where the mines do close. I see large swathes of a country ****ed, not a majority protected. |
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Out of interest, do you think that the hundreds of thousands of public servants now facing the chop all sit at work doing nothing? Do you believe that the cuts are because there is no work for these people?
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From what I remember Maggie wasted all our oil reserve cash We will pay the price someday for not investing in our own power generating, and relying on imported gas and fuel
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If Joe Public was aware of how much criminal activity wasn't being delt with they'ed be horrified. I'm not talking about a few dole cheats neither
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I believe that a lot of work has been "invented", public servants deciding they need to do x and y. There has to be a decision made along the lines of :-
What are we the tax payer willing to pay for? What services do we want? what can go? What gives value for money? What is good money after bad? We only have a finite budget. We need to live within our means. The public service has expanded exponentially over the past 15 years. Why? Are we getting value for money. has every 50% increase in funding provided at least a 50% improvement in service. I think not.
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The problem is a lot of public sector workers are unemployable in the private sector. The work ethos between the two is completely different. I work with various local authorities and the project managers for example work on ONE project only, most are tiny, as the big ones get shopped out to consultants. The consultants work on 3 or 4 jobs at a time and are run off their feet.
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And you would be suprised by just hom many of those invented jobs are filled by wives, family and friends ![]()
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![]() With misery about to be heaped on many people, this is the best news angle the Telegraph can take on it. Hilarious! Last edited by eviltwin; 06-07-10 at 10:29 AM. |
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I do a lot of contract work for a large local authority. I'm only here cos they don't have sufficient inhouse resource as it is, and if they have to make redundancies just who is going to do the work.
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Here are some examples of the construction division of one local authority I work for... They employ the same amount of people as a construction company with a turnover of £30m...yet struggle to turn over £10m and they do not make a profit. When they tender for a job (and i'll word that loosely as they don't really tender for the work it is given to them on a framework/plate) they will state the work will take 12 weeks to complete when other framework contractors are stating 6 week durations. They will then cause delays and go on for longer than 12 weeks, external contractors on the framework will very rarely not complete on time. The standard of work is terrible and general site procedures are non existent (they are even being investigated by the HSE at the moment) Now this is one department in one local authority, I know they are not all the same and there will be some good ones. But I work with a lot, and the majority are like the above.
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