Cut down on highly-paid executives and spend the savings on frontline staff

How about we get rid of all the highly paid executive level people there and use the money ‘saved’ to invest in more people at the coal face? In other words invest the money saved in more teachers, police officers and doctors and nurses! Radical?

Of course, but let’s take an example: one police commissioner less could put six to ten officers out on the beat, one hospital administrator less could be a similar number of nurses. It goes on. And I think that the ordinary people – you and me – would rather have greater numbers of visible nurses, doctors and teachers than ‘mouthpieces’ at the top.

And why stop there? PFI schemes are crippling our hospitals and other public essentials. Get rid of them. They’re a leech on the services that they were imposed on by governments from Blair onwards.

Yes I’m still a radical after all these years, but I’ve lived about as long as the NHS has been around so I’m hardly a stripling lad.

Like many others I have grumbled about the services we get, be they run by local or national bodies.

But the professionals running our care services are, on the whole, doing a fabulous job despite all the problems put in their way.

We though are facing a doomsday clock, and the hands are approaching midnight, we’ve got to get it right because our grandchildren will not forgive us. Education, health and security are not costs. They’re an investment in the future.

So let’s push our MPs to take actions to invest in our wonderful country’s future. They may squeal and moan, but my suggestions do make sense, maybe because I’m not a professional politician! Just an old Black Country bloke.

M Gough, Wombourne