The Suffolk Fire Experience - Doc 351 Graham Noakes Essex FBU

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TERESA GORMAN MP
Billericay & District
House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA

Tel: 0171-219-5171
Fax: 0171-219-6856

Our ref: TG/JB


Date 5th November 1998

Dear Mr Noakes,

Thank you for your recent letter.

All Britain’s fire services are far too overstaffed. It is one of the last of the dinosaur industries clinging to feather bedding, using shroud waving and blackmail to prevent the modernisation of the service.

The Algarve is stuffed with healthy young British males, living comfortably, their incomes supplemented by disablement pensions from the fire service.

In Arizona, when the fire service was privatised, it became obvious that 80% of all ‘calls’ could be dealt with by two men in a fast car. And the cost of the service was halved.

Who will be the first council to have an open debate on privatising its fire services and let some fresh air into the argument?

Yours sincerely
Mrs Teresa Gorman MP

Mr Graham Noakes
Brigade Chair
Essex Brigade Committee
21 Mcdivitt Walk
Eastwood
Leigh-on-sea
Essex SS9 5UD