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To wonder why civil service haters don't understand that cutting 10,000 jobs is going to hurt everyone

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Everythingisnumbersnow · 13/03/2025 16:24

I can't believe Labour is doing what they're doing

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Everythingisnumbersnow · 13/03/2025 16:31

Bailamosse · 13/03/2025 16:30

An investment bank. They won’t be affected in the slightest.

There are plenty of jobs around, we don’t need to be effectively subsidising people to do bloated, bureaucratic, non-jobs in order to artificially keep people in jobs.

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This is pretty ignorant

At best with more and more people out of work you're less in demand and that means you command a lot less pay

At worse the businesses that your company invests in fold and your company decamps elsewhere

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GasPanic · 13/03/2025 16:31

I thought I read somewhere they are going to cut the civil service, while hiring 5000 new tax inspectors.

bestcatlife · 13/03/2025 16:30

Ah, so this is what stopping WFH is really about. Hoping people leave.

Bailamosse · 13/03/2025 16:30

Everythingisnumbersnow · 13/03/2025 16:29

And who pays your wages? And how will your wages be sustained as fewer and fewer people have money to spend?

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An investment bank. They won’t be affected in the slightest.

There are plenty of jobs around, we don’t need to be effectively subsidising people to do bloated, bureaucratic, non-jobs in order to artificially keep people in jobs.

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Everythingisnumbersnow · 13/03/2025 16:29

Bailamosse · 13/03/2025 16:28

Enlighten us, OP? We are paying for CS, there’s too many, cuts will make most of us better off, no?

I mean, they should, in theory. No chance they actually will make us better off.

And who pays your wages? And how will your wages be sustained as fewer and fewer people have money to spend?

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Radiatorvalves · 13/03/2025 16:29

I think it’s a good move. It’s somewhat different and more considered than the hacking and slashing in the US.

Dreamskies · 13/03/2025 16:29

hamstersarse · 13/03/2025 16:27

If you don’t think we’ve a bloated yet inefficient public service, you need to open your eyes and your mind

This is the first positive thing kier starmer has done

I’m public sector and honestly, I can’t argue with that

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Everythingisnumbersnow · 13/03/2025 16:28

9fthighfence · 13/03/2025 16:26

How is it going to hurt everyone? Please elaborate.

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How is putting 10k people out of work, significantly cutting their ability to act as consumers for the private sector which in turn will reduce tax receipts and private sector employment, when the jobs market is on the floor, going to hurt everyone?

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Bailamosse · 13/03/2025 16:28

Enlighten us, OP? We are paying for CS, there’s too many, cuts will make most of us better off, no?

I mean, they should, in theory. No chance they actually will make us better off.

DancefloorAcrobatics · 13/03/2025 16:28

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hamstersarse · 13/03/2025 16:27

If you don’t think we’ve a bloated yet inefficient public service, you need to open your eyes and your mind

This is the first positive thing kier starmer has done

9fthighfence · 13/03/2025 16:26

Everythingisnumbersnow · 13/03/2025 16:24

I can't believe Labour is doing what they're doing

How is it going to hurt everyone? Please elaborate.