Few would ever think of public sector workers forming "communities" as the miners once did.
But in 2010 some towns and cities are so economically dependent on public sector employment that the government's spending cuts look to be sending them in the same direction as Margaret Thatcher's ideology dispatched the pit villages in the 1980s.
Social workers looking forward to a whopping 1% pay rise in each of the next two years must be apoplectic as they listen to our irresponsible, gung-ho bankers threatening to quit the UK because their ill-gotten bonuses above £25,000 will be taxed at 50%.
If the Conservatives win the next general election, it will mean the end of the seemingly jinxed child database, ContactPoint.
For charities, there has never been a recession like the one the UK is said to be heading into.
So you have some spare cash and you want to put some aside for the proverbial rainy day. Do you invest it in a low-interest account or do you stash it away in a high-interest one?
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