Michael Gove appeared on BBC Breakfast this morning. Pressed on the issue of job losses due to public sector cuts, he actually gave a satisfactory answer: "several thousand" bureaucrats and quangocrats would go.
Will we see a hardening of the Conservative position in the final hours of this campaign? I hope so.
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I am confident that the cuts in Public Sector staffing levels will be far greater than indicated by the conservative party. The pre-election message will have be softened by “focus groups” who believe that a huge number of managers sit about in the Public Sector doing nothing.
ReplyDeleteWhilst I would not wish to do anything to strongly persuade people otherwise (I know first hand that the number of middle managers has escalated ridiculously in the past 5 years), this sort of organisational change must take place in each institution lead by competent management.
A more pertinent question which will be asked by government (of all levels) is what should we do less of? Which areas (and there are many) has the public sector strayed into where there is, quite frankly, no place for it to be?
This is where the biggest savings in Public Sector will found and I am confident that David Cameron, George Osborn, Michael Gove, et al, will bring the necessary changes.
@Andy:
ReplyDeleteA more pertinent question which will be asked by government (of all levels) is what should we do less of? Which areas (and there are many) has the public sector strayed into where there is, quite frankly, no place for it to be?
I agree that this question is crucial. Canada and New Zealand can both serve as inspiration here.