No compromise on reform - Brown

[Barman]

Gordon Brown says there will be no going back on the public sector changes introduced by Tony Blair.

Writing in the Financial Times, the prime minister says Wednesday's Budget will begin a new chapter in reform.

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More of the same from Gordo but this bit caught my eye...

Mr Brown told the newspaper: "In 2008, the public rightly expect ever-higher quality of public services more personal to their needs - from general practitioners open in the evening and at weekends, and one-to-one tuition for children to personal budgets for social care and police known personally to local neighbourhoods."

Do they want that Gordon?

Public services have never been in a worse state… I remember as a child that we could get the doctor out if somebody was ill at night, our local PC was PC Ashley, known to everyone in the neighbourhood (too well known to some  ), and the roads were swept, maintained and the drains cleaned out on a regular basis so that they didn’t overflow when we had a shower…

These are not new things that the public want; these are things we used to have in the UK before politicians pissed all the money away and had to make cuts in public services to balance the books. 

[Nick]

The word has been used so much that I no longer know what it means. They have spent the last 11 years "reforming" things and everything has got worse!

[Grumpmeister]

To be fair, there won't be any compromises. But that is only because Gordo will do what he wants to do and bugger the rest of the country as their opinions dont matter to him. Just has he did with the EU referendum.