>How theatrical! There are a lot of people working very hard in the UK's public sector.
There are. My Dad was cared for by some of them. Others of them are doing great work for my Mum. I've had some good experiences of local council workers here, too.
I've also had some terrible, terrible experiences as well, of managers more concerned with protecting their own positions than the people they're caring for. Of people who take three years to sort out a simple problem. Of workmen doing cash in hand jobs with council materials, on council time. Of council officials who looks down on people because of where they were born or because they're female, or old.
I want Britain to have the best public services in the world. It saddens me that some people think that because they work in a coucil office they can slack off. They tarnish the good name of all the people out there doing a good job in the public sector.
> A lot of them doing a lot more good and being paid a lot less than a pen pushing "editor".
It's very brave launching a personal attack from behind an anonymous posting, you know. Congratulations. For the first time in the two or three years I've been using Livejournal I've decided to switch off Anonymous posting.
> The only rotten thing in the UK is the notion that we deserve great public services AND low taxes.
That's a pretty rotten thing, yes. However, if you believe that's the only rotten thing in the UK, you don't get out enough.
> Obviously as you believe in the right of people to blow people away with shotguns
Which I don't.
> you will probably favour some Yanqui corporate "I'm alright, Jack" society with low tax and no public services.
No, I don't. But then, your presumption was based on a false presumption in the first place.
Next time you feel like commenting here, check what I actually believe before you spout off and have the guts to sign your post.
All future annonymous posts of this nature will be deleted.
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Date: 2003-06-17 12:48 pm (UTC)There are. My Dad was cared for by some of them. Others of them are doing great work for my Mum. I've had some good experiences of local council workers here, too.
I've also had some terrible, terrible experiences as well, of managers more concerned with protecting their own positions than the people they're caring for. Of people who take three years to sort out a simple problem. Of workmen doing cash in hand jobs with council materials, on council time. Of council officials who looks down on people because of where they were born or because they're female, or old.
I want Britain to have the best public services in the world. It saddens me that some people think that because they work in a coucil office they can slack off. They tarnish the good name of all the people out there doing a good job in the public sector.
> A lot of them doing a lot more good and being paid a lot less than a pen pushing "editor".
It's very brave launching a personal attack from behind an anonymous posting, you know. Congratulations. For the first time in the two or three years I've been using Livejournal I've decided to switch off Anonymous posting.
> The only rotten thing in the UK is the notion that we deserve great public services AND low taxes.
That's a pretty rotten thing, yes. However, if you believe that's the only rotten thing in the UK, you don't get out enough.
> Obviously as you believe in the right of people to blow people away with shotguns
Which I don't.
> you will probably favour some Yanqui corporate "I'm alright, Jack" society with low tax and no public services.
No, I don't. But then, your presumption was based on a false presumption in the first place.
Next time you feel like commenting here, check what I actually believe before you spout off and have the guts to sign your post.
All future annonymous posts of this nature will be deleted.