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Squeaky bum time for public sector contractors?

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    Squeaky bum time for public sector contractors?

    Listening to the Chancellor. She's asking all non-essential consultancy spending to cease across the public sector. She needs to find £3bn.

    Gulp.

    How do we feel about this? Any predictions? Yes, I'm scared.

    #2
    Originally posted by BigLadFromBeeston666 View Post
    Listening to the Chancellor. She's asking all non-essential consultancy spending to cease across the public sector. She needs to find £3bn.

    Gulp.

    How do we feel about this? Any predictions? Yes, I'm scared.

    Is your project 'non-essential'?

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      #3
      Originally posted by Fraidycat View Post


      Is your project 'non-essential'?
      It's unbelievably essential. It allows me to pay my mortgage.

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        #4
        She's hopefully concentrating on the likes of McKinsey, PWC etc.
        Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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          #5
          If you work for someone who has recently been made a Lord/Lady, or who milked the system for the last 14 years, then maybe you should be concerned, particularly if you, too, milked it and didn't save/pay down debts.
          …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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            #6
            Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
            She's hopefully concentrating on the likes of McKinsey, PWC etc.
            This. Fewer studies by management consultancies, more stuff that actually "needs" to be done, is my guess

            I'm not fussed at the moment, as a software developer working with a central government department. They'll still need forms for people and businesses to fill in, and data putting into databases so QuickSight dashboards have something to show, if only to tell them how much they've saved so far

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              #7
              Our new chancellor is really going to screw things up.

              Private sector is already in a recession. Cutting public sector AND raising taxes is going to send the economy into a steep dive.

              Seems like an educated lady with a strong set of leftie principles. Very commendable, yet not someone who should be let anywhere near to running an economy.

              Personally, I am putting aside everything I can, because I know I am going to need it to get through the next few years.

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                #8
                Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
                She's hopefully concentrating on the likes of McKinsey, PWC etc.
                Except she isn't deciding what to cut and the small fry is easy prey. I do a lot of stuff for the public sector and what's to stop naïve authorities thinking they don't need external service providers because their own highly talented IT departments can do the job just as well The big consultancies aren't going to advise that their advice isn't necessary

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                  #9
                  To see how this is all going to pan out, might I suggest a few hours spent reading/listening/viewing the works of Messrs Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn might be well spent?
                  Old Greg - In search of acceptance since Mar 2007. Hoping each leap will be his last.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Zigenare View Post
                    To see how this is all going to pan out, might I suggest a few hours spent reading/listening/viewing the works of Messrs Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn might be well spent?
                    Yes, Zigenare.
                    …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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