The Public Sector

We both employ too many public servants and pay them too much. Indeed it seems that the number employed by the government itself has increased over the last year. This is outrageous when so many of those we come into contact with seem to be quite content to work at a pace that would never be accepted in the private sector. There is a senior local authority servant that I know who not only has generous holidays but is also frequently to be found some afternoons down at the golf club practising. I accept that every now and then he has to stay late and sometimes has to attend on his political masters in the evening in the pub and at the restaurant but the early afternoons are compensation for that. He does not need a salary way in excess of what the Prime Minister gets. Am I jealous? Of the pension he'll receive, yes, but not otherwise as it seems to me his job is somewhat dull. It does though go against the grain when Councils are stopping rubbish collections, probably the one thing everyone demands of their Council and believes their council tax should cover, rather than providing the services they should provide by reducing their costs which they could easily do by sacking all their officers in non jobs such as diversity, change, equality and health and safety. Councils could also reduce the salaries of many of their staff to reflect those of employees at similar grades in the private sector. It is not the business of government to pay trade unions nor to create jobs in the public centre in the hope their employees will vote for them at the next election.