July 13, 2004

Bureaucrats on the Street

In Chancellor Gordon Brown's spending review, he has decided that 100,000 civil service jobs must be cut. A first glance this sounds like a good thing. Cutting down the size of the bureaucracy - why not?

This means that 100,000 people will be out of work. If they can't find 100,000 jobs in the private sector, then all of the savings to the Budget in terms of salaries will be paid out in unemployment benefits.

One of the departments hardest hit will be Work and Pensions. When all the staff of the Job Centres are made redundant, they will walk around to the other side of their old desks and file Jobseeker's Allowance forms, if they can find anyone to receive the paperwork and process it.

Posted by david at July 13, 2004 10:14 PM | TrackBack
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