So Labour plans job cuts and savings on the public sector. I m still nice enough to vote Labour as I have done since 1983 (excluding 2005). At least I'm as nice as Stuart McLennan.
I did enjoy learning about the 50% tax rate for earnings over £150,000 too.
Some seem to think the public sector is the largest employee in the country. Perhaps it is. I only get to deal with people in Revenue and customs or the job centre. Some of them are first class and some (fewer) are so useless, rude or lazy they need to be sacked or given more to do. Maybe I was unlucky in meeting these people or that my stardards and expectations are unrealistically high. Its all our money which goes on these jobs. I want it to be spent well. At the very least is a pay freeze acceptable? And what about helping people access the huge amount of unclaimed benefits by making the system more user friendly? I ve also heard about insider fraud and tax favours for the rich from those whose job it is to collect it.
As for taking on the bailed out bankers and the alien super-rich ask why Brown and Darling have n't taken them on. They appear gutless here. It is they who need to use their power to make change.
Concerning unsupportable benefits, how are the police given generous pensions for early retirement at 51? The inequality is n't just between the rich and the rest of us, its within the larger sector of society. The focus must be universal and egalitarian.
What I would hate to see attacked are the winter fuel payments and things like sure start and tax credit.

Lets get the theory out of the way. As a self-employed tradesperson my income has since late 2008 been very reduced. Yet I've just had to pay tax for my 2007-8 earnings. I found the Revenue and Customs robots to be, well, robotic. Lets spread the pain here to those who also dole it out on the little people.
I won't be voting for Cameron but if he gets in I'm going to enjoy seeing the axe fall on public sector pay and jobs. We are all in this together. You can go back to the theory now.

Ha! And as a tradesperson presumably enjoy watching demand for your services drop further as more people are out of work or tighten belts in fear of unemployment? The Tories can't seem to get their head around this one either.

It is interesting how many people now see public sector employees as underworked, unnecessary or enjoying unsupportable benefits. The corporate media have managed to persuade us subsistence living and an early grave is somehow noble and patriotic, and joining an union to improve conditions as treacherous and a refuge of the lazy. We're not all in this together. There is a tiny minority of people that own most of the wealth in this country, and they're not in it at all. You've got the wrong target mate.

Mark, be careful what you wish for. Is it the ambulance driver's job you'll enjoy watching disappear or the firefighter's job or your daughter's teaching assistant?