Public Sector Workers V Dishonest Mps?
It is not as the Conservatives or Labour would have the voters believe there are not lots of public sector workers sat around doing nothing. Over the past years the public sector has faced and taken massive job cuts and most public sector workers are working long hours taking extra work home just so the job gets done.
A very close relative is a senior manager with the civil service she starts her day at 7am and when she does get home after a meal she starts again because if she did not do this work for free the job would not get done. As a senior manager one would think her job would be enough to keep her busy but for the past 6 months she has been doing two jobs which in truth is far too much and I am concerned for her health.
As long as I can recall political parties have always targeted the public sector worker as it is easy and they seldom have to justify what they say or do, long gone are the days of high employment within the public sector and then sat around drinking tea, those days are 30 years long gone?
What amazes me is so many are so gullible as to believe the spin from MPs about the public sector they are using them as nothing more than escape goats and it is wrong of these MPs such as Brown or Cameron to do this they are not being honest now there’s a surprise?
It is these self same MPs who have fiddled their expenses, failed to pay their bills in West Minster for food and drink, can we really trust these people I think not. £6.1 million it cost we the tax payer in food and drink subsidy’s for MPs in West minster alone and they are not there at least four months out of the year.
Last year Labour agreed, Britain will spend £825m over the next three years in aid to India, a nuclear-armed power that sent a spacecraft into orbit last year, a country that has stated it is going to build a nuclear submarine. £666 million to Pakistan who is also a nuclear power.
How on earth can you justify this?http://lesbonner.mycouncillor.org.uk/200…http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/sout…http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/…
In my experience of the public sector (Police and Local Government) caring people work exceedingly hard to get the best outcomes for their communities. I have found that this continues to be difficult because of an seemingly everlasting process for change and focus on efficiency savings which seems to me to be a fairly inefficient process itself.
The reason the cost of the public sector is so high is because we live in a Nanny State and over the past ten years there has been a sense of entitlement fostered to the extent that somebody leaving school at 16 with no qualifications now feels entitled to a home and living allowance provided them by the state (and they get it)
MPs need to start standing for something other then their party or leader
I have a friend that works in reception at my Civic Centre, she says it is the easiest job she has ever had and also the best paid. There are 3 receptionists in total and not enough work to keep 1 busy all day. This is not me saying it, but a friend that does it.
How many days on average do the Public Sector have off sick compared to the Private. They have on average 3.3 days extra per year, virtually 1 day a month on the sick.http://www.lgcplus.com/jobs/sick-day-gul…
They contribute very little towards their own pension yet will have a better pension then me, and I pay in £2K a year. Very rarely do Hal and I agree on any topic but he mentions qualifications. My Son In Law can’t get promoted any further because he doesn’t have a Degree in anything, his boss has a Degree in Pottery / Ceramics, how the hell does that help in Social Services?
Edit,
She did tell me and she still contributes less than me for a pension that will be better than mine. I also pay rates, 25% of which goes where? You guessed it to fund Public Service Pensions.
Sick pay? Shall we go on?
I can confirm that, in the NHS at least, many people work extremely hard to keep the service running smoothly.
I have lost count of the number of nights I or my colleagues have worked long after our working day has finished to ensure that laboratory results are available to enable patients to be treated.
Often these late nights have been precipitated by problems caused by administrative changes forced on the laboratory from above, often by “professional managers” employed to implement government targets.
Of course, these managers are not to be found when things go wrong and most manage to move on to new jobs before their new systems collapse because they are unworkable. Perhaps that is why they are called “managers”.
Whilst the public sector may work hard they dont work smart! They have no experience of life and are not qualified for the job they are doing, they dont have the ability to think for themselves and fail to adapt to differences in people. Whilst it may be funny on the TV it really is a case of computer says no for many of them.
I had a problem with my tax code last year (I was being taxed too much due to having a company car and then opting out of the scheme). It took over 5 hours on the phone talking to 4 different people before I got into my car drove to the tax office in Stoke and showed them how to calculate my tax in under 10 minutes with an excel spreadsheet.
I was unemployed for a 2 month period earlier this year and had to go to a how to find work seminar at the local job centre. There was 4 people on this course – yet there was 5 lecturers and they knew nothing about how a professional finds work. I was taught to go to the JSA website and buy the local rag on a Wednesday….. Really most of the jobs in my field have a head office in London and dont advertise in the Nottingham Evening Post or the JSA website.
The above is true of many managers in the NHS, local councils, national government etc.
Many civil servants would not find a job in the private sector – FACT and that is what annoys many.
I am all for creating jobs in the public sector but they need to benefit the tax payer and in my experience and dealings with them – they dont and that needs to change.
You cannot compare foreign aid as a reason for not cutting public sector jobs – they are too completely differing budgets. And whilst it may be true that India has sent a rocket to space people are still starving – a united western front of applying political pressure to the Indian government needs to happen – not just cut aid.
EDIT – This is not about doctors, nurses etc but civil servents who many of which dont know what real work is.
here is the evidence that supports the civil service is not up to the job. Digby Jones the former head of it called it not fit for purpose. It is a tick box excersise filled by people who in the main have never worked in the private sector, have no commercial awareness, dont understand profit and loss because their jobs dont depend on it, fail to see the bigger picture, have no idea of repucutions (it is almost impossible to get sacked from a public sector role). Most are protected by unions, work flexitime, have better pay and conditions that the private sector and have a better pension.
Many people in the private sector start work before 7am and finish late in the evenings without the perks that the public sector gets.
If a flight gets cancelled – I choose another airline next time, if I have a problem with a utility company I change, same for a supermarket resturant, bar, gym, anything in the comerical sector has competition – the same cannot be said for the civil service who have no competition and therefore get away with offering a poor service to the people who pay their wages.
And I pay for all of that!!!
You miss the point. Most of the Public sector jobs are non jobs created by Brown so they will vote for him! They are busy doing nothing worthwhile for the country! As I remember there were 1700 in Whitehall controlling 25% of the world at the zenith of the British Empire! Now I think there are 80,000 moving paper around Whitehall!
How are we going to pay all the stealth taxes needed to pay this army of unproducers when our wealth creating industries are being killed off by a mixture of Gordon Browns incompetence, over bearing bureaucracy and poor education for the next generation etc.
Of course the MP’s are corrupt and should be shot at dawn!