We are all running the country – accepting the invitation to join Government
This morning in the UK we have woken to a new government – in which collaboration is the name of the game.
Chain Reaction is a 10,000 strong network built on collaboration and shared ideas between people from the worlds of business, community and the public sector – the people who will be delivering this new policy programme.
This afternoon, the new government will release its first policy statement. It’s too early to know what will happen, but some things are inevitable: there will be less money, and that will mean we all need to to work more collaboratively and creatively. We want to start feeding in practical ideas for how we can really work together – across business, the public sector, and community organisations, to deliver a fairer, stronger society.
There are many ways to share your ideas – online via the Chain Reaction network, at your own self-organised meeting, or at our first ideas group in east London. This gathering will be expressly cross sector, and will focus on responding to the new Government’s proposals.
Further details will be available early next week (provisional date 4 June 2010), but if you are interested in attending please email laura.hyde@community-links.org to apply for a place. (Places will be limited)
The manifesto of the majority party invited us all to “…join the government of Great Britain”, so start posting your ideas now – if we’re all part of government, then let’s be the Ministers of Social Change!
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One idea if we are all running the country is to spread the pain. At the moment it is felt unequally.
Could we reduce the pay of all public sector workers by 20% if you earn > £200,000; 15% if you earn > £100,000 ; by 10% between £ 50,001 and £100,000; by 5% between £30,001 and £ 50,000; by 2% between £10,001 and £30,000.
That way we can release some of these savings to help the frail, the un-employed, those in poverty and those on benefits. They said they wanted to help these groups.
A similar scale and approach to apply to pensions.
That way the public servants would be seen to serve the public more than now.
Thank you Alex. Would you be willing to post this idea over on the Chain Reaction network http://www.chain-reaction.ning.com? (or let me post it on your behalf?) Laura
Alex, what salary/benefit planet are you living on?
I agree those at the top should take some sort of pay cut. But those on £10-£30k -no they shouldn’t have any pay cut. I earn £13.5k P/A and I’m certainly living in poverty (can’t afford a holiday, can just about afford to eat, can’t afford to go out and have to save up when I need new clothes). Cutting a salary at that level would drive people even closer to the breadline – I don’t really see how that helps people living in poverty. I think we should have a living wage not a minimum wage and there should be a maximum wage too; I think that would be more equal.