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Right to hit the public sector fat cats, by Max Wind Cowie

9 April 2010 | Max Wind-Cowie

It’s easy to misrepresent Cameron’s commitments in today’s Guardian – on enforced pay ratios in the public sector – as simply an attack on public servants.  It’s not.  It is an attack on public sector fat cats who are not only paid well but are paid grossly more than those at the bottom (or even in the middle) of their organisations. Read more...

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Why turkeys don’t vote for Christmas, by Max Wind-Cowie

24 September 2009 | Max Wind-Cowie

David Walker’s response to Demos’s call for greater freedom and trust for frontline services was not entirely unexpected. Whilst we do call for the Audit Commission to go, the report – Leading from the front – is a wider framework for reform, which emphasises the need to empower professionals and the people they serve. It is clear that we are unlikely to ever agree on the issue of axing the Audit Commission, but his critique misses the point. Read more...

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The Audit Commission must go, by Max Wind-Cowie

22 September 2009 | Max Wind-Cowie

The six largest audit quangos cost the UK taxpayer £1bn a year to run and the biggest beast in this motley crew is the Audit Commission.  That billion pounds looks like a pretty attractive saving in an era of austerity, but it’s only half the reason Demos is arguing for the abolition of these bodies. Read more...

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