Sir – Last Saturday’s blocked Queen Street traffic and microphoned yelling by the trade union protestors of “No ifs and buts, no public sector cuts” myopically misses the point that there are big ifs and buts.
People around me in the street wondered what planet the demonstators were on.
In the last decade or so, Oxford City Council has one of the poorest performance records. The local planning system is a mess.
County-wise, transport is in a jam. Education achievement is poor. The NHS trust struggles under a bureaucratic stranglehold. Historically, the unions thrived on promoting social change, not social stagnation. But the real message of the current campaign is “Less speed, less haste, keep public sector waste”. Public debt and inefficiency needs something better. No ifs, no buts.
Ken Robertson, Headington
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