Larry Williams Drive

Oh, I love the cheek of the Public Servants union. Mainly because it gives me a chance to have a crack at public servants. So, the PSA is upset at National. Because National, and Act really, has promised to slash the number of back office bureaucrats if they win the next election. And obviously the PSA has got worried about it. Because based on a couple of polls this week and the self-inflected shambles the Government’s been this week, it looks increasingly likely that National and Act will be in power and will be cutting public servants.   So the PSA is trying to presumably drum up anger at this, and are trying to justify public servant roles by warning that removing back office roles will impact the front line. “Backroom workers are critical to an efficient public service.” Not at the quantity they are currently. There are 2550 schools in New Zealand. There are 3900 full-time staffers at the Ministry of Education. That means there are 1.5 support people for every school in the country. Come on, no school ne