End the feather-bedding over sick leave days

Our beloved country is suffering from a serious fiscal depression and we are trying to talk our way out of it.

But because we are so ‘sick’, we have no hope of working our way out.

Our statistics office indicates that 26m ‘sick leave’ days were claimed in 2010 and are struggling to get the figures out for 2011. Some 26m ‘sick leave’ days against a population of just over 4m and, if you include pensioners and those under 16 years, you get a good idea of the extent of the malaise.