No need to 'sign on'
This piece of classic advertising from the late 70's would be wide of the mark these days
In Brown's happy workers land, we no longer have dole queues because...
Figures from the Office for National Statistics for the three months to June 30 show private sector companies laid off 29,000 staff while over the same period an extra 13,000 civil servants were hired
Its good to see that despite the global financial turmoil, its business as usual in once-Great Britain’s burgeoning public sector
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There is another issue here that's rarely addressed- this makes it more and more difficult to vote New Labour out. Few of the ever increasing public sector worker's are going to vote for Tory cuts experienced under Thatcher,when they have job security & pensions (unaffected by Gordon's stealth tax) the majority of private sector workers could only dream of. No wonder New Labour are employing more and more of them.
Posted by: Ed | November 21, 2008 4:12 PM