For many years now I have come to realise that public services in this country are not under funded, it's the obscene waste and misuse of funds that diverts cash in the wrong directions.
The Governement and Civil service being amongst the worst.
I work for a very large British organisation and I see the problem every day.
Endless rounds of managers meetings travelling by train or car, staying in expensive hotels, eating expensive food when a conference call would suffice, team building events, excess staff doing nothing productive and the excess of managers not dealing with them. Paying agency staff when existing people not fully employed, performance pay schemes making people satisfy stats rather than do what needs to be done.
My mother recently underwent minor surgery, for which I am grateful to the doctors an nurses, but why was she ferried from one hospital to another twice and during the Bristol rush hour tying up staff ambulences and wasting fuel, why was she moved into 5 different wards in 2 days having to be reassessed each time by yet another doctor and given new bed linen each time, not to mention the admin behind all those moves.
If our state services and government would cut the massive inefficiencies, cut out the ludicrous perks, and stop making handouts to any foreigner who fancies a couple of years holiday in the UK, the requirement for tax could be reduced or the money used productively to improve services.
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