Bridge, you can't go quoting Wiki on here. It's a well known source of Socialist / Marxist lies and propaganda. Now first thing tomorrow morning you must go out and buy the Daily Mail, so that you can understand the concept of unbiased reportage.
The figures are claimed to be flawed in the comments; there is no corroborative evidence, simply conjecture and the presentation of figures to support a particular line of argument/opinion, which may well have been plucked out of thin air. ( That is if you can decode what exactly the comments are saying ).
And yet again we come back round to the Police, Fire Brigade, NHS, Armed Forces, Social Care, etc,etc,etc. All of these can be classified as just 'an overhead' ?
Mind you, if you start with MPs.....
In the current financial climate, there is no need whatsoever for any public sector worker to be concerned for their jobs. Dune will explain it all to you.
Please explain how much jurisdiction the British Prime Minister and the FSA had over FannieMae & FreddieMac, and the Euro Zone. The quote I responded to was about the 'one system' that binds the globe, not feeding your obsessive fascination with Gordon Brown.