this is what the labour government have done...
on one hand they've created so many new jobs, bringing the unemployment rate down to the lowest it's been in ages... but they create jobs which clog up the mechanism of the public service...

then the system breaks and it all goes to balls...
(likeajackhammer, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 13:51, 1 reply)

Indeed
It's estimated that 60% of the workforce are directly and indirectly working for the government (NHS, Councils, etc...).

That leaves the other 40% paying for it.

Surely that can't last long.
(dchurch bah, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 19:54, closed)

Estimated by whom?
The civil service says 19% of the workforce are engaged in the public sector.

www.civilservant.org.uk/numbers.pdf
( Fronds are waving gently on, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 22:29, closed)

Yes.
Because government employees don't pay tax.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Wed 17 Mar 2010, 23:09, closed)