tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34993014.post4564632905430009959..comments2024-01-13T10:12:47.756+00:00Comments on Ranting Stan: The public sector needs telling - no kidding!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34993014.post-88910676774274840772009-03-24T08:05:00.000+00:002009-03-24T08:05:00.000+00:00Yes, I know it's difficult, but I get fed up with ...Yes, I know it's difficult, but I get fed up with the Tory party claiming they are going to be "straight and honest" when they patently can't be. The trouble for the private sector is that we don't throw the toys out of the pram like the public sector do. When our pensions are cut, jobs lost or pockets picked for more cash to fund the public sector we don't go on strike, hold demonstrations or picket government buildings. We don't do anything. We just bend over the barrel as we're told. The big corps in the private sector have some leverage as they can threaten to move elsewhere, but the vast majority os small businesses, self-employed and private sector employees are impotent. That is the very reason why the Tory party existed - to protect and champion the cause of the individual. They were our voice - our only representation. They've abandoned us so we should abandon them.Stanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15007863347348182876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34993014.post-70489439425305161022009-03-24T02:51:00.000+00:002009-03-24T02:51:00.000+00:00I'm with you all the way here, Mr Stan, but I wond...I'm with you all the way here, Mr Stan, but I wonder whether it can be sold to a sufficient number of the electorate. <BR/><BR/>Say now that you will cull the public sector of all but the really necessary jobs and you risk losing so many votes from those people that you can't be elected and, therefore, you can't do it. <BR/><BR/>Perhaps the only practical option is for Mr Cameron to get in on a platform of making such changes as can be afforded and then say that the books show things to be so bad that radical steps must be taken. At the start of a five-year term it would be possible to make some of the structural changes that are needed, but even then there is only so much he could do. <BR/><BR/>It's a long haul because, as we have both said many times, the whole balance at present is manifestly unsustainable yet the State machine is massive and can only be turned slowly. <BR/><BR/>The greatest tragedy is that the problem is exposed most starkly by the current troubles which are attributed in the public mind to the private sector. While the State is acting as nanny to the bust banks it is the saviour. To argue that it is also the single greatest handicap to recovery is a difficult argument to sell.TheFatBigothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17255526385076528633noreply@blogger.com