The Government receives taxes and is responsible for providing the services needed by the electorate. The big problem is that these services and personnel seem to consider the electorate, the ordinary citizen, an irritation best held off by avoiding contact or prevarication.The public sector is in hiding, they do not answer the phone, reply to emails and letters, they blame “volume of calls” (meaning no staff to answer phones). Utilities, Councils (especially planning) their only talent is dealing with complaints of which there are countless. The regulators have failed to rein in this abuse so this has to be an absolute Number 1 priority. The Ombudsman’s service is also, in my opinion, culturally not fit for purpose and overall a Minister of Regulation and good service should be appointed to oversee the whole public-sector / private utilities work-force. It must be drilled into public sector workers that they are ‘servants’ to the electorate and the taxpayer.THIS BLOATED SECTION SHOULD BE REDUCED BY A MINIMUM OF ONE-HUNDRED-THOUSAND (100,000) PERSONNEL. Would we miss them? (Belgium did not). By the start of the next Parliament UK debt will be £2.5trillion. The State cannot afford this burden!
