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Having said that, and working in the public sector as I do, I find myself surrounded by very bright, diligent people who just want to make a difference. They do a good job, because they know that their job matters. Almost without exception, all the people I work with in the public sector, both within and outside my organisation, are bright, educated, smart people who do a good job very well. They tend to be motivated by more than just money, though I don't expect you to understand that.
Indeed. In fact many Public Sector posts require both Graduate Status and also very specific Post Graduate training in order to qualify candidates. Why would any sane voter want a second class public service run shambolically, under funded and with de-motivated poorly trained staff?
Of course few, if any, would. But that is exactly what a lot of Tories
do want. Unqualified Teachers being just one example of many. Outsourcing contributes to this mess, with very lax rules regarding the training of those filling many outsourced posts, and the simple
act of outsourcing, reducing the former Public Service to a set of simplistic 'tick boxes' to be filled in exchange for formulaic funding, rather than a comprehensive and joined up professional approach to, and analysis of the issue at hand.
Much Public Service, especially at local level, has its origins in the good intentions of local 'worthies', Guilds, etc., who saw that life FOR ALL depended upon the management of issues such as Public Health, Environment, Planning and Development, Housing, Social Care etc., etc.
These are mostly issues which if left to the 'I'm alright Jack' approach so beloved of Mescalito and his ilk, result in the seedy, dirty, poor and unhealthy society so well described by Dickens.
It's what we are being deliberately driven back to.
It has nothing to do with immigration, scroungers,fecklessness or any of the other streotypical scapegoats trotted out endlessly by the right wing propagandists.
It has everything to do with a mean minded penny pinching Govt which is determined to grasp back everything it can from the many, and give it to the few.
Just look around you. Crumbling roads, collapsing Social Care, endless closures of public services of all kinds, huge increases in rough sleeping and homelessness, privatised Rail services which can't cope and are owned by foreign Govts, very shakey energy supplies also dependednt on not just foreign, but hostile Govts... the list is endless.
And none of the above is accident. It is ALL deliberate Tory policy.
Of course.. with an election in the offing we are starting to hear how much they care.. and how much money they are putting into fixing society's ills. You'd think it was coming out of their own pockets to hear them.. but then in a very real sense it is, because every penny spent on the Plebs is a penny less for the grasping spivs in charge. But they won't of course mention that they are pretending to fix the damage that they themselves wrought, with less money than they claim, and even that mostly 'vired' from one pot to another for just long enough to buy a few votes.
I really despair. Not of the Govt. They are easy to understand. But of the population which continues to allow them to destroy our country.
