Richard Tice (but dim) of Reform UK just tweeted the above charts with the caption “CIVIL SERVICE: No improvement in productivity in last 20 years & almost 40% larger over last decade.
Over the last 30 years as governments have liberally spewed out policies, new laws and regulations they have seldom if ever back up the initiatives with the right amount of back up.
Nobody would complain about the amount of bureaucracy if the country was running like a Swiss watch but the reality is the whole edifice of the state is sitting in the waiting room of the knacker's yard.
Total collapse is just around the corner and our politicians are entirely to blame, for their total incompetence, ignorance and for wasting so much money on Welfare and all the totally unnecessary policies on Net Zero.
In life you so often need to be hard to be kind but our politicians are in the main weak, cosmetic charlatans.
"There is ample evidence that there are no serious grown ups in Westminster just low grade, preening, ignorant,out of touch, cosmetic, self-centred, cowardly, virtue signalling incompetents."
We don’t have too few civil servants. There’s no question of that. There’s loads of anecdotal evidence that their productivity is appalling. A brief story. A friend of my son’s works (!) for HMRC. He’s a bright lad and a hard worker. He reckons he could do his job easily in 1/3 of the time he’s allotted but has been told to slow down by his inspector.
Is anyone looking seriously at working out what government does and what it needs to do and what can be done locally or not at all? Part of the problem is that government promises too much and is always bound to under deliver. We still need laws, and standards and regulations - maybe we just need better quality of the same, simplification and gradual improvement. We could also get rid of the Climate Change Act and simplify the tax code. We could all perhaps have a good look at the question, why do some tasks longer to achieve than their equivalent twenty or thirty years ago?
It's a stretch to blame lack of public service productivity on less than 10% of public servants.
Indeed if you check percentage of public service that are civil servants over the last 50 years, it has gradually reduced from over 12% in the 70's to 9% now, with a minimum of 7.1% in 2016. Obviously Brexit then occurred, so an increase should have occurred.
'improving workplace support for women experiencing menopause'. Give me a break. Women have 'experienced menopause' since the beginning of time. I speak as a woman who has 'experienced menopause' and whilst I would rather not have done, it is a natural process. The last thing I want is someone 'making allowances' for me. This is the problem. We are treated as though we are not resilient and, unfortunately, we have enough whinging women who think 'well if it's up for grabs I may as well have some of it'. This is a transformation of who we are as a nation. I prefer to be with people who 'just get on with it'.
Perhaps repealing the Climate Change Act would be a good start.
Over the last 30 years as governments have liberally spewed out policies, new laws and regulations they have seldom if ever back up the initiatives with the right amount of back up.
Nobody would complain about the amount of bureaucracy if the country was running like a Swiss watch but the reality is the whole edifice of the state is sitting in the waiting room of the knacker's yard.
Total collapse is just around the corner and our politicians are entirely to blame, for their total incompetence, ignorance and for wasting so much money on Welfare and all the totally unnecessary policies on Net Zero.
In life you so often need to be hard to be kind but our politicians are in the main weak, cosmetic charlatans.
Completely agree, except I think you are being too nice to politicians.
Is this better from something i wrote earlier ! ?
"There is ample evidence that there are no serious grown ups in Westminster just low grade, preening, ignorant,out of touch, cosmetic, self-centred, cowardly, virtue signalling incompetents."
Anything I missed?
I think you have captured the essence of what we all think.
virtue signalling culpable incompetents?
Pete you are too clever by half for this lot.
We don’t have too few civil servants. There’s no question of that. There’s loads of anecdotal evidence that their productivity is appalling. A brief story. A friend of my son’s works (!) for HMRC. He’s a bright lad and a hard worker. He reckons he could do his job easily in 1/3 of the time he’s allotted but has been told to slow down by his inspector.
Is anyone looking seriously at working out what government does and what it needs to do and what can be done locally or not at all? Part of the problem is that government promises too much and is always bound to under deliver. We still need laws, and standards and regulations - maybe we just need better quality of the same, simplification and gradual improvement. We could also get rid of the Climate Change Act and simplify the tax code. We could all perhaps have a good look at the question, why do some tasks longer to achieve than their equivalent twenty or thirty years ago?
Because of bloody DEI programmes and objectives.
It's a stretch to blame lack of public service productivity on less than 10% of public servants.
Indeed if you check percentage of public service that are civil servants over the last 50 years, it has gradually reduced from over 12% in the 70's to 9% now, with a minimum of 7.1% in 2016. Obviously Brexit then occurred, so an increase should have occurred.
'improving workplace support for women experiencing menopause'. Give me a break. Women have 'experienced menopause' since the beginning of time. I speak as a woman who has 'experienced menopause' and whilst I would rather not have done, it is a natural process. The last thing I want is someone 'making allowances' for me. This is the problem. We are treated as though we are not resilient and, unfortunately, we have enough whinging women who think 'well if it's up for grabs I may as well have some of it'. This is a transformation of who we are as a nation. I prefer to be with people who 'just get on with it'.
Not to forget that lots of formerly civil service operations have now been outsourced.