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Oh Dear - Guess who are losing their jobs?

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    Oh Dear - Guess who are losing their jobs?

    No not the greedy bankers, the public sector workers (aka Labour voters):

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle4945283.ece

    The cutbacks planned for the Ministry of Justice offer the first sign of the impact that the credit crunch and rising inflation will have on public services. The department was planning savings; however, the extent of predicted cuts – forced in part by increased pressure on prisons and global financial turbulence - is being revised.

    The Department for Work and Pensions, which has been given a budget cut of 5.6 per cent over three years in real terms, has announced 12,000 more job losses on top of 30,000 posts that were originally due to disappear. Revenue & Customs has announced 12,000 job cuts on top of the 17,500 lost so far, while the Home Office and the Communities Department are also expected to produce drastic plans to reduce staff and cut spending.


    Interest rates being slashed whilst inflation rages, double Oh Dear.

    #2
    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    Revenue & Customs has announced 12,000 job cuts on top of the 17,500 lost so far,
    Rule #76: No excuses. Play like a champion.

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      #3
      Originally posted by Xenophon View Post
      Don't be so quick to celebrate, all those redundancy payouts are going to cost a mint...
      ǝןqqıʍ

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        #4
        It is not as if they will be voting for anyone else. They could vote SWP, I suppose.
        How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

        Follow me on Twitter - LinkedIn Profile - The HAB blog - New Blog: Mad Cameron
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          #5
          Originally posted by DiscoStu View Post
          Don't be so quick to celebrate, all those redundancy payouts are going to cost a mint...
          Who's paying?
          Rule #76: No excuses. Play like a champion.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Xenophon View Post
            Who's paying?
            You and me I think
            ǝןqqıʍ

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              #7
              Originally posted by DiscoStu View Post
              You and me I think
              Oh, crap.
              Rule #76: No excuses. Play like a champion.

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                #8
                Originally posted by Xenophon View Post

                Who's paying?
                Originally posted by DiscoStu View Post
                You and me I think

                But not meeeeeeeeeee.
                How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

                Follow me on Twitter - LinkedIn Profile - The HAB blog - New Blog: Mad Cameron
                Xeno points: +5 - Asperger rating: 36 - Paranoid Schizophrenic rating: 44%

                "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to high office" - Aesop

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
                  Revenue & Customs has announced 12,000 job cuts on top of the 17,500 lost so far
                  'Orwell's 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual'. -
                  Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by SantaClaus View Post
                    To free up budgets to hire another 5000 IR35 compliance officers.

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