Dec 29 2006
The public sector is not working
Parliament has set a bad example again, breaking for Christmas on 19th December and not reconvening until January 8th. Now many other parts of the public sector seem to take a long Christmas break. It’s such a contrast with the private sector, where many shops opened up on Boxing Day and are open all this week, where newspapers and taxi services have been available since
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John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
You are wrong. We should be giving them longer and longer holidays. Parliament should only be sitting for a couple of days a month/year. This will cut down on poor legalisation and red-tape. As for the public sector we might find we don’t actually need its services at all.
Funny: MPs get a longer Christmas break than we do at my school.
The Adam Smith Institute recently wrote that his local vet was on emergency call over Christmas, but his local doctor was not. I’m not advocating a privatisation of the NHS here, but it just shows how the profit incentive sometimes (in fact, most of the time) works far better in getting people off their asses than government subsidy.