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I know of plenty of people working of pretending too in those trades, none of them are in a rush to leave. There is certainly room to save money in those services from what I see.
Whilst I acknowledge you are famously anti-police (though doubtless you will shortly give the "I have a black friend" style argument), I will simply say the following then let it sit.
Six years ago, if I was at a job and asked for an ambulance, it was with me in about five minutes on average (usually quicker). Today, my longest wait so far has been just shy of two hours, and if it turns up in under half an hour is amazing.
Their response times seem to have been hit harder than ours.
Six years ago, there were 45 officers on my shift. Our 'set target' was to be at blue light incidents within 10 minutes, and we rarely missed that.
Today, we have a shift of 19 officers for the same area. Blue light response times were raised to fifteen minutes to try and improve 'the figures'. We regularly miss them, and there quite simply isn't an officer to send.
/leaves thread.