maltreatment and abusement of the labour laws is one thing; the need to redress the economic balance is another and especially the public sector is rife with inefficiency - it is totally correct to challenge, for example the police budgets or the NHS - and I am not advocating cutting the frontline; indeed there may be extra cash to boost services.
How - just take a look at the NHS bureauracy and data inputting ahead of operations. I can understand once and two checks but having to put the same data in a further six times before an operation in the Cornwall Trust - please......and as for the police, why do we need Devon & Cornwall, Dorset, Avon, and Somerset separate forces each with their own Chief Constable, exec mgt, Finance Officers, HR officers, Press Officers, Compliance and all the rest of the overheads - after all all 4 grouped together are far smaller than, say, Birmingham, Manchester and the Met. I would put it to anybody that they could halve the number of backroom jobs and get a hell of a long way to meeting the cut targets - without ever impacting on the front line.