I completely agree with you Ann. However, I know that in many teaching universities you can even find staff without PhDs. So if you have a PhD and maybe some publications in the pipeline or submitted, it is not that unrealistic to apply for lecturer posts without post doc experience. You just have to sell yourself well.
Unfortunately, in this country you will find a substantial number of new universities which don't care much about research or the RAE and more about making money from tuition fees etc. Of course, these institutions lack reputation and cannot attract good researchers. Nevertheless they require some teaching donkeys in order to keep the business running and therefore are quite happy to employ lecturers with no teaching experience, with no publicatin record but with a PhD.