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Highlights
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The United Kingdom’s public sector is in crisis. More than a decade of chronic underinvestment is now manifesting in threadbare public services delivered by an underpaid, overstretched workforce. What we’re witnessing is worse than postpandemic pressures — it’s the managed decline of the public sector itself.
✏️ Just like the portugal drug decriminalization thing, we see the process of underfunding public services and shifting them over to private, completely decimating their value and reversing any benefits they once offered. 🔗 View Highlight
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public satisfaction with the NHS has fallen to a forty-year low. Yet instead of committing to sufficient investment, the government expects the NHS to double its efficiency savings even while inflation eats away at health budgets. The health secretary is now calling on the private sector to step in and cut waiting lists.
✏️ As I said above, instead of funding it, they now turn to private sector for “help”. 🔗 View Highlight
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This is what the managed decline of the public sector looks like. Public services are underfunded, they fail to deliver, and then public trust in them falls. Instead of increasing funding, the government puts more pressure on public institutions and looks for ways to bring in the private sector.
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played out in some form or another across the public sector, from housing to social care and local government.
✏️ More examples of this process. followup 🔗 View Highlight
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The government’s claims that it can’t afford to give workers a genuine pay raise are purely political. We could afford above-inflation pay raises by making the UK’s tax system fairer. In the current system, a worker earning a wage or salary pays a higher share of tax than someone who makes money by owning an asset, like shares in a business. This means that asset owners can get rich while paying less tax than workers like nurses and teachers. We could afford above-inflation pay raises for every single public sector worker just by fixing that injustice.
✏️ The claim that the government has no money to increase funding is, as always, bullshit. Yes, they may not have enough money in hand, but it’s because they’ve been undertaxing the elite and overtaxing the poor. There is a ton of money that they’ve been giving up and not collecting, purely for elite/capitalist benefit at the expense of the public good. 🔗 View Highlight