Laying off people who weren't and aren't contributing anything productive, because the country has run up gigantic debts.
There's not any easy answer to this problem (except not to have run up the debts in the first place).
There's not any easy answer to this problem (except not to have run up the debts in the first place).
There is no doubt that there are a lot of people in the public sector who deliver a lot of value. However, there are also a lot of organisations and people who clearly aren't - a tidy out was long overdue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument_Syndrome
Of course, managers who act this way should be the first ones kicked out...
Saying that UK public services are inefficient is one thing, probably true.
Saying that the layoffs can be confined to people who "aren't contributing anything productive" and be extension health, policing, education, research etc will not get worse at all is an entirely different thing, and I don't think it's true.