Spending Money At Last

Finally, Gordon Brown is spending some money on public services in the UK. Today, the Government announced £511 billion worth of spending. They are focusing on education, with some of that, but also targeting poorly performing public services, whose managers may be removed and replaced if they do not meet performance goals. Why do I think we will have more overseers and fewer doers in the future? I hope not. It’s about time this government fulfilled some of its promises that many people believed were made back in 1997 when they first came to power. I want the government to build a better society, and at the heart of that, better public service provision is required. [Yahoo]

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