Ah, the old emotive "slashing the public sector" comes out early on! Face it, folks, whoever is in Government next is going to have to make massive cuts. We simply can't afford to continue spending money as we are now. Labour have already said that they would make such cuts, but then I suppose that would never be "slashing" or "endangering lives….bringing dooooooom!" would it? Those would be responsible, sensible cuts, wouldn't they?
Anyway, back to the topic here. I'm all in favour of cutting back on state bureaucracy and all thee mindless targets etc. In fact, I'd like to see a lot of the guff cut out, as I'm sure it could be a massive saving without really having much impact on the vital services (not a slashing cut, though). However, I really can't see that this is the right/best approach here. The public sector doesn't really work effectively anyway, as there's less pressure to succeed. Comfy job, leave early on a Friday. No danger of getting sacked even when you get something wrong. * Give them even less accountability or pressure, and well, things would just stop. Not good.
A bit of a duff policy announcement, IMO
*Applies to the workshy idiots in much of the office based public sector. Not at all to the really hard working folks (NHS, Emergency Services etc)