Public Policy Pillows

"The only solution I can see is to hold a series of long and costly hearings in order to put off finding a solution."

"We're borrowing the best features of the Canadian system."

Focussing on what's REALLY important

'Public/Private Park etc'

"It's a 300 page government questionnaire about cutting back on bureaucracy."

Baby Boomers and Benefits.

"The government will continue to provide the full range of NHS services to ANYONE who needs them WHENEVER they need them!"

People in park angry at smoker. Meanwhile, woman is being mugged.

'Surely you can earn more than this! Someone has to support Medicare and Social Security.'

Passing the Pension Time Bomb

New PFI project - benefitting the local community. '...They own shares in the company that built it'

'You pay taxes so I can go to school? Hey, that's where you can save money.'

'It's a brand new state-of-the-art waiting room.'

What it will take to give all our children a world-class education...money.

Clinical waste.

Population train.

'Free healthcare for everyone!! Except you pay for this and that, and surgeries, medication, and a bunch of other stuff...but what a victory for the average american!'

Beware of stimulus plans.

NHS development plan

"Heading to your government schools to be brainwashed?"

Cost,choice,efficiency...NHS.

Social Services gets a punch in the face from budget cuts.

CONGRESS, 'No, no, you don't HAVE to fool all of the people all of the time - you just need to CONFUSE them!'

Education Funding

Politics in nurse staffing

'He joined the party in support of the police cuts.'

'Hey, we wanted budget cuts, we got budget cuts.'

Funding Cuts for the Arts

'The government is DETERMINED to get rid of the 'target culture'...in fact we've committed to reducing targets by 68^ across 75% of the 76 most target driven departments within 96 days!'

Stop It.

'I don't understand all this fuss about 'personalities'...I've never had one and it never did me any harm.'

'For? Against? Undecided? Uniformed? Apathetic? This is one accurate poll!'

'On second thoughts maybe now isn't the best time to be looking at cutting flood defences...'

"People think the government has a bottomless pit of money....but sometimes we have to make sacrifices!"

Minister rubbishes private sector hospital initiative.