True Public Service ; Letters

Western MailMay 15, 2010

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SIR - I was not unimpressed with David Cameron's words on the steps of 10 Downing Street. And coming from a highly sceptical individual like me, that is quite saying something.

But he blotted his copybook by paying tribute to Gordon Brown's "30 years of public service"! Can we please stop this Americanism "public service" from gaining any more of a treacherous foothold than it already has? Let's get it clear: "public service" comes from the untold number of people in the UK who do totally unpaid work for their community. Politicians who get seriously rich - and are occasionally unemployable elsewhere - are not such "public servants". Indeed, it is quite the other way around: the public serve them. And serve them big time.

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