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The Duke of Westminster or Prince Charles will be picking up a million Pounds for their farm subsidies. Then of course there is all those weapons manufacturers who are all paid for by the state. Funny the tax payers bullshit organisation don’t mention them.

It depends what you are trying to prove, does it not? In any event, are the banks not supposed to be as asset that we will profit from in due course when the public share ownership is sold off to the private investor?

I’d tend to agree with you that a lot of ‘consultancies’ are little more than overpaid mercenaries. It would be interesting to know what percentage of their income accrued from the private sector -v- the public sector, but this is probably commercially confidential.

Arguably, a first step in correcting our Public Sector Borrowing Requirement would be to cancel all such contracts, and if necessary, employ suitably qualified individuals directly at the grossly deflated salaries they could then command.

Must check if the Taxpayers Alliance has ever commented on this gross waste of taxpayers money.

That’s about £10,000 more than the lowest paid Band B civil servants.

God knows what Band A’s are on.

And let’s not forget the piles of money that are shunted from the public purse to private pockets by way of public-private contracting as a matter of course. Jarvis, Capita, Balfour friggin whatsit, Deloittes, BT, Ayglisys, Bupa – that lot may claim to be private sector, but they bloody well are not. They take huge dosh from the public purse.

Just one question. What exactly is the status of the banks? The RBS still has shareholders apart from the government, circa 30%, I believe. It is also still quoted on the FTSE.

In other words are they not in a kind of limbo between public and private?

The elephant in the room is that all these CEO’s in local government can blame the Leader of the council for all mistakes – whereas they get a normal wage. My Leader (who’s the dog’s bollox) gets about £30k whereas the town clerk gets £150 and is a bloody waste of space. Quangoes – well, how accountable are they?

I agree that the issue is the disparity in the hierarchy in the public sector. At one of the councils I worked at, the number of people earning more than £50,000 a year nearly tripled in three years – while the number of housing officers, etc (the people engaged in the important work on the service desk) was cut incrementally.

The issue of outsourcing of low paid workers is a disgrace – already low paid workers have their weekend enhancements cut, their annual leave and sick leave taken from them and are forced to work more shifts just to make ends meet. It goes without saying that they provide a lesser service as a result. The public sector is much needed, but not in this form.