government announce more public sector funding cuts

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This sounds great on paper: Two million public sector workers are reportedly set to get a £2bn pay rise.

The Treasury will unveil the biggest public sector pay rise in six years as one of Theresa May's final acts as prime minister, the Times reported.

Soldiers are set to get a 2.9% rise while teachers and other school staff will get 2.75%, police officers, dentists and consultants 2.5% and senior civil servants 2%.

But: It is thought the money will come from existing budgets.

So what is going to be cut from public services to pay for this?

It will be taken from the departments who are in real terms receiving pay cuts now, and are on the receiving end of no pay rise for the 11th year running.

They do win votes which is why this pay rise needs to be revealed for what it is - more cuts to schools, health etc.

Well no pay rise for me AGAIN then, seven years and counting. And trying to manage delivering projects with yet more funding cuts so the top management can get a pay rise. Awesome.

I presume you dont work in the public sector?

I suppose more treatments and surgeries being denied on the basis of cost. Higher patient ratios and riskier health care overall as managers create precarious barriers to necessary interventions like tests, scans, and caesarian sections which will jeopardise the welfare of many when things aren't found until it's too late. Playing around with budgets and not adequately spending on healthcare will kill people but it will always be blamed on low level employees rather than cost saving policies.

I work in the public sector, yes. I'd like a pay rise but not at the expense of more cuts to schools.

Sorry not you, I meant sooty.

I am a school governor and the school couldn't be any more efficient. 7% budget cut next year, less money this year than last. The budget reforms have made us worse off and we were already one of the worst funded counties. At one point the worst so we have legacy issues from lack of funding so it actually costs more to put things right when you have some £. Its not at all efficient putting off the non urgent.

I used to work in the NHS and still work closely with it. Similar issues apply. I just get a bit fed up of armchair critics that know very little, such as there are less managers in the NHS than any other comparable industry.

YANBU but a combination of inexplicable support for the Tories and a wanky electoral system makes this sort of stuff unavoidable.