Short-sighted vote only delays inevitable

REGARDING parliament’s rejection of the privatisation bill on Thursday, it is now patently clear that a large section of the political leadership cares not one iota about the majority of their people or their country, and is interested only in sustaining the number of people in the ‘civil’ service (what a ridiculous misnomer that is!) because that is where their power base lies and without it they lose their strangle hold.
One of the many reasons we are in the financial mess we are in is because of the crazy size and cost of the public sector. It is a fact of modern life that nobody can ever be guaranteed a job for life, a fact both union chiefs and politicians need to come to terms with and let go of their sense of entitlement.
At least some of our semi government organisations could and should make money but are prevented from doing so by outrageously bad management and the ridiculously high cost of the workforce.
This vote will only delay the inevitable and, if the next tranche of funding is delayed, create more discomfort for ordinary people, including SGO workers, who will not get paid. As always, those at the top of the food chain will not feel the impact of this, and only those at the bottom will be wondering how to put food on the table until our political leadership grows up and faces the consequences of its self-serving activities over the last half century.
I do not think that privatisation will lead to lower prices for consumers, it certainly didn’t in UK, and I wish we could hold on to our national assets and run them at a profit for the national good. But this is just a pipe dream, and so is the notion that we can continue to run them as a gravy train for the pampered few.
What these fools now propose is that we sell off the assets and keep the liability!

Vivienne Ladommatou, via Cyprus Mail website