[Margaret Pilkington]

And the public sector are paying taxes out of their earnings to keep those lazy people who don't want to work in fags, beer and daytime TV.
They are working, adding to the communal pot. They spend in local shops.
I think it is pretty nigh impossible for the private sector to take up the slack of the redundancies in the public sector.

It is also laughable that there is a crackdown on those claiming benefits.........the government is saying they will have to go out to work........doing what? where are all these jobs coming from, Pray tell...they will just shuffle from one type of benefit to another........and we, who pay taxes are keeping them.