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We are so in IT all together... NOT!

1/11/2013

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Yesterday was a good day to break very bad news it seems. For this was a day to be marked in calumny when our MPs, elected public servants, decided that while all around were being sacked or having their pay cut they should benefit from not a small pay rise but an astonishing £20,000 rise which would nearly equal the average pay of anyone lucky enough to still have a job.
And then, a little further into the EDP, we learn that MPs have decided that councillors, also elected public servants, should also get higher allowances.
Now I don't want to appear curmudgeonly but I will. Public servants are currently being sacked at a phenomenal rate and the survivors have had their pay pegged to a 1%  annual rise. The NHS is being pared down like a Jaffa - from the outside in - while being handed wholesale to the private sector.
The police are being expected to contain crime and protect the public (and our elected representatives) with fewer people, fewer resources and less support and again using more private contractors.
Education is in turmoil with the high probability that the new organisations will cut teachers pay and conditions so that fewer qualified candidates will want to join the service.
Youth support has been virtually done away with. Benefits are being cut regardless that, as the economy shrinks, more will need more not less. Nothing is being done to help the homeless in any meaningful way.
But look - MPs want a massive pay rise, elected councillors are offered an allowances increase and the future employment of both bunches of true blue thieves will be ensured by handing lucrative public contacts to their future employers in the private sector. Everything must be all right surely?
This coalition looks ever more like a corrupt collusion of conspirators; they need to look out - Les Miserables may be a nice musical experience which could win gold but it is about the downtrodden poor wreaking revenge on the rich and privileged. I dream a dream...

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