No offence taken. Sadly even if it was made compulsory to work in an office 5 days a week, it is impossible as the last government shut offices and sold premises off wholesale. Now there is simply not enough space available for full time office working.

The contact point is interesting and not unique to public service. It is impossible to contact many organisations on the phone these days as you either don't have an option or you get caught in the endless circle of the automated call?

I don't agree on pay, You cannot use basic pay as a comparator most public service workers may have seem basic pay gaps narrow but very few workers in the public service get any meaningful bonus payments. If the jobs were that great everyone would want one.

But hey good and bad in every organisation.

We need public services but for many years no government has been willing to invest in them

Back on topic, Reeves has zero credibility in feigning surprise at the financial state of things . She and Labour knew all the numbers well before the elections.

Now come the cuts for the unfunded extras like the junior doctors pay hike for which no provision was made in the " costed " manifesto.

One Labour minister claimed they had discovered 300 million of undeclared cost for the Rwanda scheme, that may well be but it's insignificant to a " 20bn black hole"

They're coming for your pensions and capital gains tax on mpre and more.

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

Orpie you may have jumped in a bit quick I’m afraid. I reckon that tax is a coming with it being the tories fault!

Of course we will see a blame game. I suspect(but of course can not prove it that any deficit however big will be at least in part arise from what we have seen a lot in recent years, kick the can down the road and worry about it later.

Same old Labour.
A ridiculous pay rise for junior doctors and then a lot of codswallop about 22 billion black holes.

It's sad that we have to endure another 5 years of Labour tax and waste before another generation realises why Labour don't get to be a government very often.

That one is really bad.
People on a basic pension will no longer receive winter help but the NHS and public sector will be having a field day and their gold plated pensions will rise.
Labour is about to get a short sharp shock - not that they need worry about it.
Feed the beast as in the public sector and Unions and all will be well.