During the Thatcher/Major period many of our group experienced transfer from public sector to private sector. Sorry, dismantling of the public sector and feather-bedding of the private.
The majority of us were made redundant at the UK state's expense. This was a financial burden from which the private sector shied well away.
Where we were offered jobs in the private sector the compensation offered was between 50% and 60% of our original salary. Pensions - forget it! That was the employees' responsibility.
Yes, some of our colleagues transferred to the private sector and found pay and conditions were not the same.
After a year in private service and having had their expertise and experience filched from them these former public servants found themselves unwanted and were declared redundant.
Those who had more durable skills were kept on but noticed procedures were liable
to short-cuts and speed-ups.
Many of their colleagues were much lower paid and temporary staff predominated.
And yet all this cost cutting did not affect the 'return on investment'?
Some of us former railway workers found that their jobs were filled by staff who did not have any experience of the work involved.
Four inch thick manuals and operational instructions which they were required to know from cover to cover were only referred to after an incident.
We were not Thatherite or Majorite as far as politics goes. But a lot of people working in the public sector are conservative with a small 'c'.
Will they be conservative even with a small 'c' after they've been in the private sector
for a year or so?

What's the point? Do you think Brown as Chancellor and then as PM created an ever-bigger public sector workforce, and got as many people as possible, in work or out of it, on some form of benefit or other, out of nothing but altruism?

Of course not! The whole idea was to get enough people dependent on the state that Labour could go around saying "Don't vote for those nasty Tories, they'll cut all that. Don't forget you need the bountiful state and only Labour can give you all that free money." Now that's working in reverse. Boo hoo.

No he will not sack his employee's that take care of pensions for politicians.

He is a gentleman farmer more interested in the multinational food suppliers based abroad for taxes and importing workers to pay farmers less for milk.

As I said a gentleman farmer of Tatton, and hang on have been reading the script for Noddy goes to war.

If we ever see managers in the council, quango parasites, and all the other civil service non-job freeloaders signing on, then we may not go the way of Greece.
Personally my plan is to get as far away from the EU as possible, and watch Europes decline from the relative high ground of the USA.

George
You dont have a basic grasp of economics.

Increasing the supply of labor into the market causes labor costs to fall. It means over the long term that in the home and overseas markets people will buy more British goods and services --- its jobs before pay and not pay before jobs (I hear you booing me).

Hilter was a keynesian fundamentalist (go read up). He borrowed massively and used the money on work creation in particular roads and arms. A flaw with Hitler (Gordon followed the same economic policy and like Hitler did it to win votes and power) was that huge borrowing and spending are inflationary in respect of wage rates relative to the unit added values of production. Just as we saw they were in the UK under Labour. Hilter had no choice but to go to war to avoid the german economy collapsing --- in the UK, Labour lost power and the truth about what they did now haunts our kids.

Labour borrowed £600bn. Did this take care of the economy and did they take care of their debts?

I think if true then Osborne is really a fool. People who lose their jobs due to tory cuts will not vote tory next time and probably not for a long time if ever. They are paving the way for a massive backlash and another long period of Labour (New 2.0 or whatever) govt.

It may be foolish but they are desperate. Despite more than a decade of Blair/Brownism and a lot of scandals etc they couldn't win an election and had to cosy up to the Lib Dems. So they have to do something radical - this may be their last chance for 20 years or more.

A basic error of confusing correlation with causation. People entering a public service profession, such as nursing or teaching, might be left-leaning to begin with; putting them on the dole isn't magically going to make them right wing.

The logic is the wrong way round.
Those on the left have a greater social conscience and so are more likely to work in the public sector as they place a greater value on enriching society as a whole rather than just themselves. Right-wingers tend to be money-obsessed, self-centred egotists and as the private sector actively cultivates this type of person it's no surprise they shun the public sector.

To say that sacking public sector employees will make them thankful and vote Tory is typical right-wing stupidity.

The cuts are a lot lower than believed Osborne would like us to think further cuts are being made but nearly half are simply a reclassification of employees. We do need to make cuts to current spending on services and benefits and we need to spend much more on growth enhancing infrastructure, this is what will help the UK in the long term.

Obviously the Tories are not going to be elected. They haven't managed it in twenty years.

George, your and Osborne's analysis is laughably simplistic.