And it is the public sector that supports the private sector to be able to do their work - do we not all use teachers, doctors, nurses, bin men, firefighters, police officers, ambulance drivers, paramedics, council staff who keep essential services running etc etc. Try setting up businesses in a country where none of these services exist or have to be purchased on an individual basis. I'm sick to death of hearing how the private sector funds the public sector as though all those services that we take for granted as a mark of a developed country are somehow leeching off the 'productive' private sector. It's really not like that, each depends on the other, and all workers pay taxes that contribute to the good of all. Please let's stop this 'public sector bad, private sector bad' mentality.