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Post by Pacifico on Jan 8, 2024 11:36:09 GMT
Well you know that is not true..  Sadly, if often is. Well take the current situation. Wes Streeting recently went to Australia to see what lessons they could teach us as apparently Doctors are fleeing the NHS to go and work in a better environment in the Australian health service. As a percentage of GDP Australia spends about the same as the UK on healthcare yet has better working conditions, higher pay and better clinical outcomes - it also has much more private sector involvement. The key lesson that Wes failed to learn was that to improve healthcare in the UK we should just copy the Australian system and that would make everyone (the patients and the staff) happier. |
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Post by ratcliff on Jan 8, 2024 11:44:08 GMT
Slim down the civil service. Cut middle management from the NHS. Get rid of dedicated HR staff (especially equality and diversity staff) and let Doctors and Nurses themselves do the hiring and firing. Cut middle management from Defence. Cut middle management from the Police. Cut the national debt. I wouldn't just ''slim'' the civil service I'd freeze recruiting, stop bonuses, stop DB pensions and cut total staff numbers by 30% over 3 years - no civil servant to be paid more than a government minister Make them work productively |
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Post by Vinny on Jan 8, 2024 11:49:53 GMT
Slim down the civil service. Cut middle management from the NHS. Get rid of dedicated HR staff (especially equality and diversity staff) and let Doctors and Nurses themselves do the hiring and firing. Cut middle management from Defence. Cut middle management from the Police. Cut the national debt. I wouldn't just ''slim'' the civil service I'd freeze recruiting, stop bonuses, stop DB pensions and cut total staff numbers by 30% over 3 years - no civil servant to be paid more than a government minister Make them work productively  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2024 19:46:43 GMT
We can all remember the carnage on public companies take BMC and British rail for example. If you think the railways are any better today you are kidding yourself - vastly more expensive, costing the taxpayer an absolute fortune compared to BR yet still less reliable. |
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Post by Bentley on Jan 8, 2024 20:48:20 GMT
We can all remember the carnage on public companies take BMC and British rail for example. If you think the railways are any better today you are kidding yourself - vastly more expensive, costing the taxpayer an absolute fortune compared to BR yet still less reliable. You might be right . Trains were like cattle trucks in the 70s but there were plenty of them . Same as buses. We had a bus every half hour from 6am to 12 at night in the 70s. Problem was that they were open at the back with no closing doors . If you sat at the back of the bus , you held on for dear life . |
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Post by jonksy on Jan 8, 2024 20:54:45 GMT
We can all remember the carnage on public companies take BMC and British rail for example. - vastly more expensive, costing the taxpayer an absolute fortune compared to BR yet still less reliable. I'm not kidding myself nobody could be more damning than I when it comes to sewage being pumped into our surrounding waters along with many trees being cut down in the so called name of progress. FFS at BMC you only had to look at someone and they would be on strike. It wasn't like that when it was owned by Lord Nuffield. |
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Post by borchester on Jan 13, 2024 8:47:02 GMT
We spent it on lefties.
Whenever there is a problem the left will look at it with stern eyed incompetence and demand that SOMETHING BE DONE !
This is code for setting up new departments, quangos and extra layers of bureaucracy and throwing vast wedges of the taxpayers money at it. After a bit the problem usually sorts itself out, but the new departments, quangos and extra layers of bureaucracy still remain and continue to gobble up all available cash
Borchester I usaly like and respect you post because you seem a reasonable person and often Make sense. But you're talking absolutely rubbish now. I'm on about the Money the Government receive now how can labour be responsible for wasting that. To be honest, in my experience any organisation larger than the burger stand in B & Q's forecourt, regardless of whether it is public or private, will piss away money like a drunken sailor who has won the national lottery  |
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