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Tory cuts could be mighty unpleasant

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  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
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    the people in the public sector are different from those in the private sector. they are mostly useless and incompetent.

    a worker in a private office will do the job of 10 in the public sector.

    What do you do for a living White Horse?
  • tomstickland
    tomstickland Posts: 19,538 Forumite
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    Only a month ago Labour were trying to go for a
    "Tory cuts versus Labour investment" angle.
    Then Brown had to change to "yes, we are going to cut too".

    It's not the Tories fault that they are going to cut things. They are trying to sort out the mess that we're in, which I prefer to the pretence of the Labour party.
    Happy chappy
  • Cleaver wrote: »
    What do you do for a living White Horse?

    what difference does it make what I do?

    What do you do?
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    It's not the Tories fault that they are going to cut things. They are trying to sort out the mess that we're in, which I prefer to the pretence of the Labour party.

    Let us wait and see what the voters think, eg the 48-58 age range and public servants for a start icon7.gif
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    Cleaver wrote: »
    What do you do for a living White Horse?

    Probably hangs around in a field all day chewing hay.
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • anyone who votes labour in this time should be forced to spend the rest of their life in a mental institue.
  • anyone who votes labour in this time should be forced to spend the rest of their life in a mental institue.

    could be worse... they might have to sit next to you in work ;)
  • i am very pleasant at work. I work for the labour party in fact. We are great. remember, no cuts at all, increased spending, no tax rises. we have it all.
  • i8change
    i8change Posts: 423 Forumite
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    edited 7 October 2009 at 12:17AM
    I think police deserve higher salaries than your average office worker because of the nature of the job and the risks entailed.
    Except for all those hours they reportedly spend back at the station processing paperwork.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1145962/Police-spending-time-beat-tied-red-tape.html
    The percentage of time spent on paperwork has risen from 18.4 per cent of all officer time in 2005 to 19.7 per cent in 2007. Meanwhile, the time spent on patrol is down from 15.3 per cent to only 13.6 per cent, according to figures unearthed by Conservative police spokesman David Ruffley.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6997568.stm
    "The public think that we solve burglaries, the public think that we're actually on patrol accosting thieves and people who are up to no good," he said. "But what we actually do is attempt to meet government statistics by solving trivial crime." "As a uniformed officer available for deployment, I would spend over half of my time writing in the office."
  • treliac
    treliac Posts: 4,524 Forumite
    i8change wrote: »
    Except for all those hours they reportedly spend back at the station processing paperwork.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1145962/Police-spending-time-beat-tied-red-tape.html

    They'd probably donate part of their pay to ditch even a small part of the bureaucracy that's been foisted on them by Labour.
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