white horse's wet dream

lemonjelly

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15380853

PwC says 240,000 fewer people worked in the public sector in the second quarter of 2011 compared with the same period the previous year

So you know why your services have been cut.

between the three months from April to the end June this year, when 111,000 public sector job losses outweighed private sector job gains of about 41,000.

Yeah! private sector picking up the slack i see. Hmmmm. Lots of job creation there...

PwC says its own research suggests 90% of local authorities it surveyed believe they have achieved their planned savings in the past year without an adverse impact on local communities.
But it says 40% still lack solutions for more than half of their funding gap between now and 2015.

:eek: They simply don't know how they're going to cope with the further cuts that are coming.

Explicitly, it is here. Services will have to be cut.

Conrad

You'd rather we stuck with Labours plans to borrow and extra £100bn to 2015, and pay millions in extra interest per day to Bankers?

Haven't we learned that the borrow to grow scheme was just a phoney illusion, like a snake eating it's own guts?

Thrugelmir

lemonjelly wrote: »

:eek: They simply don't know how they're going to cope with the further cuts that are coming.

Explicitly, it is here. Services will have to be cut.

Then maybe we all have to have less. For the benefit of the wider community.

Outright communism has failed. Outright capitalism has failed. So somewhere in the middle perhaps that's a balance to be found.

Over the years the UK has lost its sense of mutuality.To be replaced by a desire for personal gain.

Old_Slaphead

It says local government suffered the most, with about 145,000 job losses.

Be interesting to know how many were compulsary & how many VR or early retirement (with early access to pensions for over 55s). To my limited knowledge - very few were the former.

ILW

What actual services are going to be cut?

The_White_Horse

it's a decent start. need another million or two.

A._Badger

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Then maybe we all have to have less. For the benefit of the wider community.

Outright communism has failed. Outright capitalism has failed. So somewhere in the middle perhaps that's a balance to be found.

Over the years the UK has lost its sense of mutuality.To be replaced by a desire for personal gain.

You appear not to have noticed that since WWII 'somewhere in the middle, between socialism and capitalism', is just where we have been.

The results are all around you as they are throughout the similarly governed EU.

oldvicar

Old_Slaphead wrote: »

Be interesting to know how many were compulsary & how many VR or early retirement (with early access to pensions for over 55s). To my limited knowledge - very few were the former.

Voluntary on 'compulsory terms' is the gold standard.

Hoopie1

When I saw the title I thought it was going to be a reference to the other thread he started in this sub-forum.

On that subject, I was impressed that he managed to fit some of his Daily Heil-like bile into a thread on titty bars.

Road_Hog

lemonjelly wrote: »

So you know why your services have been cut.



Yeah! private sector picking up the slack i see. Hmmmm. Lots of job creation there...



:eek: They simply don't know how they're going to cope with the further cuts that are coming.

Explicitly, it is here. Services will have to be cut.

Great, lets have more cuts, lots of them. We need to trim our over bloated public sector. Let's start with all our diversity co-ordinators.

Ilya_Ilyich

Road_Hog wrote: »

Great, lets have more cuts, lots of them. We need to trim our over bloated public sector. Let's start with all our diversity co-ordinators.

So should we send the darkies back where they came from or just make sure they don't have access to meaningful jobs? This is important!