The latest survey of local councils, police authorities, fire authorities, and national park bodies suggests that 102,000 jobs will be lost in total. What's striking about this figure is that it covers the 131 of about 500 such organisations. The other 369 organisations have yet to announce their job cuts. Every local authority will be making people redundant. All councils, police, and fire services are facing unprecedented budget reductions. If anyone still thinks that such cuts and job losses will have no effect on services, they must be entirely deluded.
A local council chief executive has even dared to say what every single local government employee is thinking:
You've got this clown of a secretary of state saying that in well-run councils, the public won't notice any difference, I mean what planet is this guy on?
Public servants aren't supposed to be angry, but you look at this and it's unfair.
It's the big lie tactic that if you tell a big enough lie, and say it often enough, then people will believe it.
Like every other public servant, I am supposed to be impartial. But how can anyone with a conscience remain supportive of government policy when its this destructive? Like every other local authority, Cambridgeshire County Council needs to make savings from all services. That includes protection of vulnerable children, care for elderly and disabled adults, and primary and secondary education. Kids and vulnerable adults will pay for mistakes made by bankers. The same bankers whose bonuses will not be limited by the government.
The most important purpose of the public sector is to protect the people who need it. When the government prioritises an ideological war on public spending above essential health, education, emergency, and social services, it is fundamentally failing to do its job. Public servants picked up on this last year. In 2011 I think the wider population are going to realise what austerity means, and they will get angry too.
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