In the Guardian on Wednesday 14th the Treasury Spokespeople of the 3 major parties where asked several questions about the public service. On one question in particular the Conservative's George Osburne gave an answer which I have read several times and I still can't work out what he is saying.

When asked the following;

"Will you give citizens a bigger say in running public services?", he responded,

"We are committed to providing public services such as health and education free at the point of use, and to getting budgets into the hands of users of public services. This would allow those who use public services to drive priorities, and would ensure providers' professional responsibility was restored while services were also more accountable to users."

Ah? Committed to providing..."point of use..", "drive priorities...".

Heaven help us!