Middle managers are incompetent

It is political and I am certain different cuts could have been made but that would not affect the ordinary working public so much.

Any union that targets the wives and children of management anywhere is reminiscent of the SS. They got a b----y nose in Scotland. Unfortunately they are unlikely to get one here because local government and them are hand in glove and we know which one is the hand and which one is the puppet.

It is clear to me, anyway, that most closures of libraries and other reasonably essential and public services are being hit by all local councils for political reasons.

Rather than get rid of themselves and the chair warming time serving middle managers who do little and are top heavy, they target things that people want.

They hope to deflect the flak on to the government instead of themselves and to an extent they will succeed unless you realise what a bunch on incompetent hacks they all are. Elected for their party rather than for any brains or competence they might have for the job, their only consideration is staying in their posts because most could not get a proper job outside in business. From experience I know that 50 per cent of union reps do it to get out of work. In Huddersfield about two years ago the council made redundant 29 middle managers who were considered expendable and not needed. So how many have Rotherham got ?

In private companies, staff are moved to where they are needed and still have a job. In the local councils they are made redundant, paid off and then some are re-employed on the same money in a job they could have just been moved to.

As for the new MP she is a champion of herself already.

With regard to Mr Platt, he may well be right on most of it but “human rights”. The normal British people do not have any. You need to be a foreign drug dealer or white slave trader or worse. We cannot deport them but it’s OK to send our people

to the US on a warrant. Mr Platt is naive to say the least.