At the end of the day, it's the teachers, doctors and social workers that need to be good. Not the management boards or back office staff in the public sector. I don't think people quite realise the scale of waste that goes on behind closed doors. I actually work part-time in a public sector job and even my job is a waste of taxpayers' money! Some months I spend more hours on training than I do working, bearing in mind that training courses are around £300-500 a pop. Despite only working part-time, I get non-contact time which basically means I get paid for doing nothing. As for our
public service budget - all I will say is that we have recently had a very nice kitchen refurbishment and leather chair upgrades. Multiply my (comparatively small) organisation across the country and you have a shocking picture of the scale of public waste. Not to mention that the public sector operates a very closed network - I got my job because my boss use to be my grandmother's neighbour and one of my referees was a public school headmaster.
It's nice that Labour supporters like you want to defend my job, but quite honestly, I'd rather be paying less taxes. Anyway, I'll get a golden goodbye if I get made redundant before I leave.