Public Disservice

The welfare state is in trouble:

Britain’s public services are “unsustainable” because they are simultaneously not very good and very expensive, the head of the National Audit Office (NAO) has said. Gareth Davies said areas of public spending including education, transport, and most obviously health had massively increased in cost without actually getting any better. He told Britain’s newspaper of record The Times ahead of a major speech on the state of government spending: “The way that the country has delivered quite a lot of public services is coming to the point where it’s unsustainable, both in terms of the quality of service for people, and the cost of the taxpayer… Services are not good enough and they cost too much. We can’t just keep on turning the same handle. We have to innovate. It’s not sustainable to carry on as we have been.”

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