Simon Stokes
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Comment on: Council to expel homeless benefit claimants
PSR, I love your way of thinking, but sadly in this day and age of "me first", this has as much chance of happening as Kim Jong Il winning the Nobel Peace Prize!
Employers and landlords will always be greedy and those who can abuse the "system" always will, so we need to find a way which will actaully work in reality. -
Comment on: Council to expel homeless benefit claimants
It is a very fine balancing act between using what limited money that have to the benefit of eveyone. We all agree that if you cut the benefits then there will be jobs in the big cities that no one will be able to take, but if they continue to pay these high benefits then there is no money to build elsewhere or provide homes outside of the cities, it is a horrible dilemma.
On top of that you then have the problem of the cost of housing those who can no longer afford to live in the cites as well as there are very few jobs elswhere for them to go to. Or if the benefits are not paid will landlords rent to someone else or have to reduce the rent if no one else wants it?
If anyone has the answer, they need to speak up now before this all goes horribly wrong. -
Comment on: CLG decides where the axe will fall
Thanks for that Mr Souray, lots of negatives but where is the postive? So please tell us what you would do to get out of this mess, you seem to have all the answers? Its very easy to critisise, but not so easy to come up with solutions. I look forward to your proposals with interest.
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Comment on: CLG decides where the axe will fall
I have to strongly dissagree with the pervious poster. There is still massive waste in Local Govt. I have worked in both prive and public sector and never have I seen the sort of lazyness and waste in the Public sector. If the council I worked for was a business in the true sense with real competition and consequences for failure, they would have gone bust years ago.
I am sorry, but the failure is at the top, its no wonder most public sector managers have been in post so long, its such a cushy number. We have 6 managers managing 27 people in my department at a cost of £1/4million a year! What?
What private sector company would have that or even think about it?
Yes it means job cuts, but the public sector isnt a charity and you cant keep people in work at taxpayers expense in a crisis (and benefits are far less to pay than over inflated salaries and pensions).
I am sorry if you dont like it, but the reality is that we either make some redundant now and save the jobs of most of them, or we go bust like Greece and then the cuts will be 3 or 4 times as bad. And please lets stop this endless blame game, we are in this mess and need to look forward instead of always looking back and blaming someone else! -
Comment on: Councils to be given more power over HCA development funds
And about time too. You have to have decisions made at local level by those who actually know what is needed, not by those in some ivory tower they havent been out of in years. We need to get local, one size does not fit all.
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