'Huge job cuts' for public sector

[Cyberman]

I didn't say I wanted them. I said most will be roles that they will just cut without ever having employed anybody to do that role.

Our public sector is too bloated and there are a lot of non jobs which should be cut back.

WHS, and also cutting all of these non-jobs has a nice indirect effect of also reducing the public sector pensions commitment without rousing too much union activity.

[TimberWolf]

Why should a doctor who's cleverer and more use to society than you earn less than you? I assume you earn more than £60k?

The NHS is a different issue and I agree with you there.
But if we had a private system doctors would earn even more as they do in the US - the best doctors are millionaires.

Do you not think it obscene that doctors in the US can make millions out of the sick and vulnerable? I do and wouldn't want to see that happen over here. NHS doctors are essentially unsackable, whereas most contractors will probably be lucky to have a job in 5 or 10 years, so it's not comparable. Comapare the salary of a permie doctor with an IT permie.

[sasguru]

Comapare the salary of a permie doctor with an IT permie.

You're serious aren't you? You really think that a doctor and an IT developer (say) are comparable.

Why is CUK so full of deluded idiots?

[DimPrawn]

Maybe you're the idiot?

Have you ever considered that possibility?

A GP is nothing special. We're not talking about consultant surgeons here, just "you have a cough, take an aspirin" types.

Most of them don't even speaka da English.

[BoredBloke]

You're serious aren't you? You really think that a doctor and an IT developer (say) are comparable.

Why is CUK so full of deluded idiots?

I must admit that I have not been impressed by My GP whenever I have needed to see him. he simply hands out prescriptions for antibiotics. One time my wife was prescribed pain killers which she couldn't take because of her kidney transplant. It was my wife who questioned him about them and he changed the prescription

[TimberWolf]

You're serious aren't you? You really think that a doctor and an IT developer (say) are comparable.

Why is CUK so full of deluded idiots?

You were comparing them.

[sasguru]

Most of them don't even speaka da English.

Yes but I bet they can do basic maths

[DimPrawn]

Yes but I bet they can do basic maths

The ever witty sasguru. A permie in a dead end job.

[TimberWolf]

Yes but I bet they can do basic maths

Can you do basic maths?

[Menelaus]

I must admit that I have not been impressed by My GP whenever I have needed to see him. he simply hands out prescriptions for antibiotics. One time my wife was prescribed pain killers which she couldn't take because of her kidney transplant. It was my wife who questioned him about them and he changed the prescription

My GP, God love 'im, has his off days too. I suffer from a chronic complaint and our relationship is such that I bimble in to his office, tell him which drugs I want, which dosage, what frequency, that I understand the contraindications and he typically prints out the scrip for me there and then.

That having been said, my diagnostic skills are, I'm sure, nowhere near as good as his. I had a knee injury two years ago during a rugby match (yes, yes...I know) and his intervention (we play for the same team) prevented me from being carted off the park in the ambulance - he was able to put the detail in context and took me to the A&E himself, explaining what was wrong thus getting me into early surgery.

Despite paragraph 2, above, when we're playing a training game I'll still call him a ****.