The latest figures for wages confirm the Labour trend. They see the public sector as good, the private sector as bad.They think the public sector is still underpaid, and the private sector paid too much. Annual average earnings growth was 6.1% for the public sector and 2.8% for the private sector, a very large gap. Bonuses have to be earned by generating more turnover and profit in the private sector. The public sector pays bonuses for failure, as with the bonus payments to senior Post Office Executives for losses and false charges against staff. The bosses of HS 2 got rewards for big delays and massive cost overruns.
In the private sector people have to compete to get quality up and costs down. Failure to achieve a good enough performance leads to job losses and sackings for poor performance. In the worst cases it leads to bankruptcy, business closure and loss of all jobs. Big failings on quality and cost in the public sector like hospital avoidable deaths or rail crashes caused by nationalised tracks and signals lead to bigger grants of money and agreement it was no-one’s fault. The answer for most problems in the public sector is more resources. In the private sector it is often better management.
The private sector is finding the demands of the public sector too great, leading to businesses reducing staff, cutting other costs, or closing down. A haughty and demanding public sector seeks through regulation to make normal working more and more difficult, whilst through higher taxes it makes it less and less worthwhile.
No wonder vacancies have fallen again, jobs are down and unemployment up. Labour’s savage tax and regulatory attack on the private sector is having the predictable effect of closing things down or forcing cuts the public sector would never accept for itself.
August 19, 2026
Absolutely. The public sector is living on the back of the shrinking private sector, whom they think are all city bankers.
Reeves did so much damage in her two years in the job – NI, Minimum Wage, etc – which is causing the reduction in employment of course.
The most galling thing for me is the overpaid state pension recipients to be eyeing up private pension pots re. inheritance tax. Many of us are stuck on these types of pensions because of the ravages of New Labour upending the pension premise resulting in the shuttering of final salary schemes.
Sickening hypocrites.
August 19, 2026
The latest figures for wages confirm the Labour trend. They see the public sector as good, the private sector as bad.They think the public sector is still underpaid, and the private sector paid too much.
And the Liebour party are never going to change while we have deluded people still voting them back in to take us back to the dark ages of the 60s & 70s, the snooner they are gone the better off will be
August 19, 2026
It’s not just employment where there’s a discrepancy, we now have it in the planning sector. Raynes is making it easier for retrospective planning for the travelling community. Irrespective of the fact a large percentage have fixed abodes elsewhere. Another section of society which contributes very little like the channel invaders but get 5 star treatment.
We are rapidly running out of net contributors which will eventually bring the whole house of cards collapsing.