My local government colleagues are no more lazy and pampered than you

If the public sector sounds a little whiny at the moment it’s because things are tough. Not necessarily more so than anywhere else, but tough

I’m a public servant but I doubt you’ll ever meet me.

You see, unlike many of my inspiring colleagues delivering frontline services, I work in the background – operating behind the scenes to support the delivery of services many of you value. I’m sure the more mischievous elements of the Taxpayers’ Alliance would describe me as someone with a non-job, but I know how I directly contribute to public services and take a large amount of pride in the work I do.

Local government has lost 600,000 jobs in the ​past five years – that’s a lot of normal people out of work

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