Middle managers in both the public and private sector are skimming funds from public services – and nobody is talking approximately itTax or cuts? It’s a dilemma that has characterised British politics for the past six years,and shows small sign of abating. The public is told that frontline public services cannot be maintained because we’re living longer, we’re less productive, and have more national debt. It’s a choice,apparently, between inevitable cuts to public services or a politically unpalatable tax hike.
I have argued before that wholesale administrative reform of public services offers a third option. It is going to happen eventually anyway, and but,mysteriously, no one discusses openly. I believe this has something to achieve with the fact that we confuse public administrators with public servants, or cannot see where the latter are exploited by the former. If this exploitation became visible to us,we might call time on all these frontline cuts.
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Source: theguardian.com