Coronavirus: Jeremy Corbyn says he was proved 'right' on public spending

[Scoobos]

I'm planning on doing a public sector rant tomorrow, it'll be based on my many tours of duty in the public sector over the last nearly 30 years, so make sure you tune in. We can have some fun. There's no proper sport happening, and I'm not blaming the government for that either. You can play along at home, including having a go at "guess how much the Royal Navy wasted on computers which were purchased for a software application which was delayed by more than 4 years?" After which point the computers didn't even have any scrap value. This was in the late 1990's. Closest guess wins a prize. Afterwards we can discuss the funding of public services. If you give them a fiver, they will spend a tenner, and ask you to lend them another fifty.

I'm biting already, I've done 6 years public sector and 14 years private.

Whilst i get that, hows the private sector any different? I worked at a key bank for 2 years prior to the crisis and also with one of the best software companies in the world. I could tell stories about how much money was wasted , or farmed off to friends businesses, left right and centre. I've also worked in the Public sector but I think that the concept of 'taxpayers money' gives everything much more gravity than , say , Microsoft throwing billions (of stockholder money) on Nokia for windows OS, or Alphabet for G-Suite.

My view on a problem in the public sector is they are TOO protected by archaic unionistic terms and conditions , people are almost impossible to fire after 20 years service. Here's something that probably supports your view on Public Sector , I posted a few days ago about the DWP:
"DWP is 80% cretins burning money trying to implement & migrate ridiculously over complicated systems (a.k.a BPDTS) 5% front line and 15% actual claim workers."

but...

I could say the 80/20 thing about many Private Sector too. It's just a human failing maybe?

I think making mistakes , and bad leadership is a common theme, in the public and private sector.

[OwlHoot]

How come he is 'SO' right on the money?

Coronavirus: Jeremy Corbyn says he was proved 'right' on public spending - BBC News

If Labour had won, they'd have pissed away hundreds of billions last year, and would have none left to spend on the Corona virus crisis!

[scooterscot]

We don't have any money to spend now.

[BR14]

We don't have any money to spend now.

wot? sh1tcoin gone bust??
Germany has imploded?
why dont YOU have any money?

[scooterscot]

No money, no taxes - it's the way we wealthy people roll, dint you know?

[BR14]

gadge

[Old Greg]

The Tories were happy to blame Blair / Brown for over-borrowing in advance of the 2008 crash.

This time round, the Tories ran down the NHS they inherited from Blair / Brown, leaving it less prepared for the global pandemic.

[Old Greg]

We don't have any money to spend now.

It's your own fault for forgetting to expense your Thistle Hotel Heathrow stay.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g191261-d253629-r118208904-Thistle_London_Heathrow_Hotel-West_Drayton_Greater_London_England.html

[AtW]

The Tories were happy to blame Blair / Brown for over-borrowing in advance of the 2008 crash.

This time round, the Tories ran down the NHS they inherited from Blair / Brown, leaving it less prepared for the global pandemic.

Do you think Labour would have talen pandemic report seriously? No chance

[Old Greg]

Do you think Labour would have talen pandemic report seriously? No chance

That's the spirit.