Now this is mainly aimed at the UK people here but probably applies all around the world.

For those that don't know I'm a civil servant, MOD to be precise, and over the past 6-12 months we have come in for an increasingly hard from everything from being desk polishers and completely useless to being paid too much and having gold plated pensions.

I'd just like the view of any Orgahs who have an opinion on what they see civil servants as, paragons of virtue? Evil money wasters? Or something in between.

As the UK seems to be almost broke what do we think would actually save money?

Personally I think attacking civil servants terms and conditions isn't the way to go, funny that eh, the civil service has always been underpaid for the jobs we do and this was offset somewhat by having a slightly better pension and things like job security. Not to say that we don't have to become more efficient but I don't think 10% staff cuts per year consistently for the past 5 years is the way to do it, I would rather see a strategic look over the whole service with someone actually making a decision on what projects are needed and what ones are so horribly set up they should be scrapped and started again.

So ehat does everyone else think?