Alan
Chapman, Beck Lane, Bingley. Yorks Post.
IN 1997 at the end of the John Major’s Conservative
government, there were 4.9m public sector employees. In 2010 at the end of
Gordon Brown’s Labour government, he left 6.2m public sector employees, paid for
via billions he borrowed, and part of Labour’s £157bn inherited
deficit.
The coalition and Conservative governments that
followed have reduced the public sector employee total to 5.4m, data supplied by
the ONS.
Labour have launched their election manifesto, in
which it is clearly demonstrable that if in power they will re-nationalise
everything. This means they will double the size of the public sector. All those
additional wages, National Insurance and pension contributions will fall, as
always, on the taxpayers in the private sector and OAPs who continue to pay tax
in retirement.
Is it any wonder that Labour’s godfather Len
McCluskey, the public sector trade union supremo, has changed his mind and is
now delighted by Corbyn’s’ plan to double his union
membership?
Do you want to fund another five million public
sector staff?
