Mark,

"Which parasites?"

That's an easy question. I'll give you my answer via your first example my favourite hobby horse education. Now I've no great problem with hard pressed chalk face teachers, they have a hell of a job and really do need much more of our support. So where can we make savings in education.

Well where I live 25% of schools spending isn't spent in schools it's spent in the off site "head office" where people are paid to administer, monitor, measure, manage and continually reinvent the education mostly along political and 'elf & safety lines. Yes people have to continually reinvent education, come up with new schemes, change the curriculum and disrupt children's education to keep themselves in work. Money is taken from real teachers and given to these self serving idiots.

This is where we should make huge cuts, cut out interference and return education to real educators, let them manage themselves free of bureaucratic meddlers. Let's stop political and 'elf and safety $%^&, it really has gone too far to be taken seriously. Children are now "managed" and supervised where they are not allowed to play games in the playground in case they hurt themselves, no running, no kicking balls, nothing rough ffs. Perhaps a few laws less favourable to the compensation culture might help to make people grow up.

Now let's see, could much of that apply to Health, Social Services etc - I think it can.