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Actually, NI, I worked in the gardening department at Scunthorpe hospital after leaving university during the summer of 1979. I had a great time and the nurses were fantastic.
In fact I have nothing at all against the public sector, which is extremely important. What I object to is the amount of money wasted, which runs into billions, in all sorts of areas. From the NHS to central and local government, schools, you name it. The real problem is there’s no accountability, so the many good people who work in the public sector are let down by those who are incompetent or lazy; and please don’t tell me that isn’t the case. I have plenty of relatives and friends in the public sector and I hear what goes on, while you only have to look around any town or city to see the huge amounts of money that’s squandered.
As for “capitalism is the only way”, although far from perfect there’s no question that open markets are far more efficient, as the Chinese have demonstrated in recent decades after millions died of starvation under Mao. It was the same with Russia under Stalin while the modern Russia’s just too corrupt to work. Likewise with any country that’s ever tried to work under socialism and please don’t make daft claims about Scandinavia.
Deerey, I’d love you to share your wisdom on unions and, no, I’m not against them. But you’d have to be totally naive or a complete idiot to believe what’s happening at the moment is anything other than the unions weaponising their workers.
As for public sector pensions, the fact is that if these were treated the same way as in the private sector the nurses and everybody else would be able to have their pay increases. Somehow I doubt any of you will be supporting that; and remember exactly where all this money comes from. Also worth remembering that plenty in the public sector earn huge amounts of money, so why aren’t you complaining about them?