PUBLIC services are inefficient and that is why Haringey is in such a poor state. Council services and housing estates in Haringey are mismanaged.

NHS services like hospitals, surgeries and community health centres are also underachieving, as the parents of Victoria Climbie sadly found.

This week Tony Blair copied a Conservative idea and ordered the worst performing hospitals to be turned over to the private sector for improvements.

If all public services were privatised more skilled business managers would make sure performance targets are met, and staff are paid more according to results. There are too many hero workers propping up the flawed public sector system.

The current waste of taxpayers' time and money would be eliminated by these experts, leaving spare money and buildings available to create more jobs and services. Haringey would then be less of a problem zone.

|NEIL O'SHEA,

|Andrula Court,

|Lordship lane,

|Wood Green.