Axe to fall on 30 jobs at Burnley Council (From Lancashire Telegraph)

The Tory government way back in the 1970s had an idea that councils could meet a couple of times a year to dish out contracts to the private sector.
It seems the idea came from the U.S.A and here we are dismantling the public service infrastructure. It looks like they are getting their way, They have also made serious cuts to the NHS and are well on their way to privatising the NHS.

These cuts are minor compared to whats coming...Camerons leadership is on a Thatchers crusade that is going to trim local Governments in half, such are the cuts in the pipelines of funding they are pressing ahead with...

mavrick wrote:
The Tory government way back in the 1970s had an idea that councils could meet a couple of times a year to dish out contracts to the private sector.
It seems the idea came from the U.S.A and here we are dismantling the public service infrastructure. It looks like they are getting their way, They have also made serious cuts to the NHS and are well on their way to privatising the NHS.

The case has been made that local government has been in decline since circa 1935 and the evidence for this as the high-point of local government is fairly convincing.

The Labour Party when in government has taken service functions away from local government, such as gas and electricity which later were privatised by the Conservatives. A great many of these are now in foreign ownership because foreign investors recognise that the income stream is not only extremely valuable, but secure and dependable. The point is well made in the board game Monopoly where the Waterworks and Electricity Company require the payment of substantial rents from other players from the moment they have been purchased.

Turning now to the possibility of job losses at Burnley Council: Lord Harris of Peckham made a very astute point in June 2011. He said: “If you’ve got two people in an office and one is going to go (be made redundant), they will both stop spending.”

In short everyone ‘battens down the hatches’ and this is where we are now: many folks up and down the land are fearful that they will lose their employment.

Last week the CEO of Wm. Morrison’s gave a candid account of the way in which all of this is playing-out in retailing, while Asda has reported that some shoppers are withdrawing a single £5 note from their cash machines in a sure sign of the severe financial strain that people are under.

You’ve got only to look at the price of fuel at the pumps or your till receipt from the weekly shopping to know that contrary to the claims made by leading policy makers and economists that the squeeze on households is easing to be absolute drivel.

They are wrong, if anything, the squeeze is intensifying and I fear it has a long way to run.

about time they got rid of some of these free loaders .The place is full of them doing nothing.

mavrick wrote:
The Tory government way back in the 1970s had an idea that councils could meet a couple of times a year to dish out contracts to the private sector.
It seems the idea came from the U.S.A and here we are dismantling the public service infrastructure. It looks like they are getting their way, They have also made serious cuts to the NHS and are well on their way to privatising the NHS.

Labour screwed Burnley general hospital, labour knighted Fred Goodwin , labour ruined every company pension scheme in the country, the working man has been taxed and penalised by labour for years to support the slivers and shirkers in the biggest vote buy of all time, eventually they got found out, the bribes couldn't be sustained, it's a fact that councils are top heavy and need cutting back, the tories are doing a great job, the only problem I have is that they are not deep enough, or fast enough, keep up the good work nick n dave

And the millions they have to save because the goverment have cut the money for housing benefit and council tax
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maggie-T wrote:

mavrick wrote:
The Tory government way back in the 1970s had an idea that councils could meet a couple of times a year to dish out contracts to the private sector.
It seems the idea came from the U.S.A and here we are dismantling the public service infrastructure. It looks like they are getting their way, They have also made serious cuts to the NHS and are well on their way to privatising the NHS.

Labour screwed Burnley general hospital, labour knighted Fred Goodwin , labour ruined every company pension scheme in the country, the working man has been taxed and penalised by labour for years to support the slivers and shirkers in the biggest vote buy of all time, eventually they got found out, the bribes couldn't be sustained, it's a fact that councils are top heavy and need cutting back, the tories are doing a great job, the only problem I have is that they are not deep enough, or fast enough, keep up the good work nick n dave

'The tories are doing a great job"! There speaketh a minority of, approximately one. I'm sure you'd get more who agreed with her comments there but of course being guests of the NHS mental hospitals, their views will not be counted.

so instead of paying people thousands to do a necessary job; we can pay people the same thousands to be sat on their bottoms, claiming dole, housing, child tax credits ect....

I thaught they were selling Mechanics to get some extra cash?