Quote ="The Video Ref"The number required to run government departments and public services to an acceptable standard. By way of example, the MoD has decided it can function with 30,000 less civilian support staff then it had in early 2012. Which beckons the question as to why it ever had them in the first place?'"
So withdrawing personnel out of Iraq and Afghanistan had no part to play in not needing as many civilian support staff?
Quote See the jobs supplement to The Guardian on Thursdays. Aka 'Jobzilla'.
I have not looked at it since I left uni (several years ago) but it was page after page of equality and diversity officers, outreach co-coordinators, inter-faith performance managers, and other such bollox. It was rare to find these jobs paying less than £30K p/a and many of them paid much much more.'"
I think your lack of understanding of some of those roles is more a reflection of your prejudice than it is about public sector jobs. My sister was an outreach co-ordinator and was often the first port of call for young people that were feeling suicidal and/or unable to go home. I know she is a hard worker. Personally, I think that is a valid service offered by the council. Would you prefer to leave all these young people on the street or worse, or is it a matter for the 'big society'?
Quote I am not a civil servant but I once did some work at a very large government department. It quickly became apparent that around 25% of civil servants who worked there were completely and utterly useless to the point that their posts could easily be disestablished and the work divided up between others. Which, funnily enough, is what appears to be happening now.
It is not a case of private sector = good, public sector = bad. But it is apparent that far too many public sector workers were on cushy little numbers earning decent money in return for doing not a lot of work. It has rightly been recognised that this sort of culture has to end.'"
Are you aware that local councils have already and are still making job cuts? It is not just 'non-jobs' that are being affected though. I am not a civil servant but I do work with quite a lot, mostly hard working.
If I was going to moan at public spending, it would start with the white elephants that are HS2 and the recent IT projects for the NHS and the benefits, but hey, you keep bitching on RL Fans about all those people who work for the council that get paid more than you but do less work than you, all because of those pesky poor people that dare to crawl out of the gutter.
