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ED MILIBAND IS RIGHT ABOUT PRODUCTIVITY. HE JUST DOESN’T KNOW IT

<a title="By The CBI on Flickr (CBI climate change summit 2008 on Flickr) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons" href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AEd_Miliband_at_the_CBI_Climate_Change_Summit_2008_3.jpg"><img width="512" alt="Ed Miliband at the CBI Climate Change Summit 2008 3" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Ed_Miliband_at_the_CBI_Climate_Change_Summit_2008_3.jpg/512px-Ed_Miliband_at_the_CBI_Climate_Change_Summit_2008_3.jpg"/></a>One third of probation officers employed by privatised service provider Sodexo could face redundancy in the next 12 months, The Guardian reported last week . They are to be replaced – in part, at least – by electronic kiosks that allow offenders to “report in” electronically. Ed Miliband must have been delighted. The news came on the day that the Labour leader launched his party's manifesto for busines