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Some of this occurs in all organisations. These sorts of things happen in the private sector, they happen in the third sector. Life is complicated. So, yes, put in the work streamlining processes etc. There's no magic solution here.

I had a minor stroke a couple of weeks ago and was very impressed by the reaction and follow-up by the local hospital - detailed feedback to the GP were followed up a day later by a call from the consultant to resolve pending queries that I had. There was no sense of any hurry in my putting the questions during the call. Some aspects of the NHS are weighed down by procedural complexity abd waiting lists, but if something is urgent they really get their skates on.

The immigration issue was also very starkly clear - 90% of the staff were clearly not of UK descent, and the system would instantly collapse without immigrants and the next generation of immigrants.

Starmer apparently calling his party the 'Patriots' and Farage is a plastic Patriot

Why does he continue to mimic Farage and the right ?

Because he doesn’t want to give the right total ownership of the patriot vote. It’s pretty simple really.

Because he is doing it in the most pathetic "plastic union jack hat" manner. Which puts off his existing voters and puts off everyone else.

Attlee was undeniably patriotic - as much so as Churchill - maybe take a gander at how he did that. It was policies based on inner beliefs. It wasn't by subcontracting his conscience to the Law Lords....

That's not how Conservatives portrayed Atlee at the time of course. Churchill accused Atlee of plotting to introduce a Gestapo in the 1945 election!

That's just Churchill playing politics. He was good at that.

I would suggest the result of the 1945 election in the aftermath of the Gestapo remark suggests his political skills were not *that* good.

Re. the discussion in the last thread, the Probate Officer will be employed by HM Courts and Tribunal Service i.e. the most well known under-funded part of public life in the last 20 years. It isn’t the “civil service” as is commonly understood.

Isn't it? That's how I understood the "civil service"!

I was puzzled on the last thread by a complaint that a government service was slow and therefore the solution proposed was to cut staff. How is that going to make the service better?

Coz they will be terrified they’ll be the next to go in the next round of cuts. Put the fear of god in them

Give them hard targets to meet and if they don’t meet them - gone

This is the new £350m for the NHS delusion.

It’s really not. We are all going to experience the “fear of god” in the next few years, in regards to our careers and crafts - the civil service will and should be no exception. We should utilise the moment to make them WORK

As a Civil Servant myself, go to hell. I work my arse off in a background of rising abuse from the public due in no small part to the lazy pontificating of people like you.

Re. the discussion in the last thread, the Probate Officer will be employed by HM Courts and Tribunal Service i.e. the most well known under-funded part of public life in the last 20 years. It isn’t the “civil service” as is commonly understood.

Isn't it? That's how I understood the "civil service"!

I was puzzled on the last thread by a complaint that a government service was slow and therefore the solution proposed was to cut staff. How is that going to make the service better?

Coz they will be terrified they’ll be the next to go in the next round of cuts. Put the fear of god in them

Give them hard targets to meet and if they don’t meet them - gone

This is the new £350m for the NHS delusion.

It’s really not. We are all going to experience the “fear of god” in the next few years, in regards to our careers and crafts - the civil service will and should be no exception. We should utilise the moment to make them WORK

As a Civil Servant myself, go to hell. I work my arse off in a background of rising abuse from the public due in no small part to the lazy pontificating of people like you.

Why the feck are you posting on here? At 09:50 on a working day? I can do it because I’m self employed - and I employ you with my taxes. I am your boss

Get back to the office you lazy scrounger

I'm using an annual leave day to care for my sick husband if you want to know. I can't use them to actually go and travel because he's too ill so I might as well use them to provide a bit of extra care than I can provide in between the hours I spend at work trying to ensure that the public get a say in their government. I've already been threatened with a law suit this week. Why don't you go back to writing subsidised puff pieces and try to have a bit more empathy for people who work extremely hard.

Sympathies on your husband. Life is tough

Nonetheless we have to get a grip on the malingering workshy muppets who mainly staff government offices. This attitude of mine might be coloured by the fact I am now waiting ANOTHER YEAR for foreign tax documents to be stamped by HMRC. All they have to do is stamp them. It’s taking a year. And my agent has just told me this is now costing me £££

We need to sack 30% of government staff - literally a third - and halve the incomes and pensions of the rest, and tell them if they don’t like it they too will be sacked

And then wait even longer?

The focus on staff numbers is arse about face. Keep the current processes and we probably need more civil servants. Remove some of the pointless process (the stamp sounds like one, from your previous posts) and there will be roles that can be lost without impacting on service.

Focus on streamlining processes, then set the workforce to the correct level for that.

Re. the discussion in the last thread, the Probate Officer will be employed by HM Courts and Tribunal Service i.e. the most well known under-funded part of public life in the last 20 years. It isn’t the “civil service” as is commonly understood.

Isn't it? That's how I understood the "civil service"!

I was puzzled on the last thread by a complaint that a government service was slow and therefore the solution proposed was to cut staff. How is that going to make the service better?

Coz they will be terrified they’ll be the next to go in the next round of cuts. Put the fear of god in them

Give them hard targets to meet and if they don’t meet them - gone

This is the new £350m for the NHS delusion.

It’s really not. We are all going to experience the “fear of god” in the next few years, in regards to our careers and crafts - the civil service will and should be no exception. We should utilise the moment to make them WORK

As a Civil Servant myself, go to hell. I work my arse off in a background of rising abuse from the public due in no small part to the lazy pontificating of people like you.

Why the feck are you posting on here? At 09:50 on a working day? I can do it because I’m self employed - and I employ you with my taxes. I am your boss

Get back to the office you lazy scrounger

I'm using an annual leave day to care for my sick husband if you want to know. I can't use them to actually go and travel because he's too ill so I might as well use them to provide a bit of extra care than I can provide in between the hours I spend at work trying to ensure that the public get a say in their government. I've already been threatened with a law suit this week. Why don't you go back to writing subsidised puff pieces and try to have a bit more empathy for people who work extremely hard.

Guardian's list of runners in deputy leader race is a bit white and middle class. I can't see the members being happy, understandably as it suggests McSweeney has total control.

I am non white, perhaps I should become Labour's deputy leader?

Nobody cares about class, people with class do not talk about class and well...

I am running to be Deputy Leader of @UKLabour.

As a proud working-class woman from the North East, I have come from a tough council street all the way to the Cabinet.

I will be a strong voice to unite our Party, take the fight to Reform, and deliver for our country.

https://x.com/bphillipsonMP/status/1965310226565095448

I think Ms Phillipson is a very decent person, but her background is actually too typical of the Labour party that understands some harsh realities but not others.

Track:
Joins Labour party age 15
From Comp to Oxford to read history and languages
Two years working local government
Three years managing the charity founded by her mother. This brings us to 2010.
Thereafter MP for safe local Labour seat..

The charity:
The excellent charity founded by her mother is not a charity in the sense that the general public understand them - funded by voluntary donations of the general public. It is nearly 100% funded by the taxpayer.

Would it be good to have a deputy leader who had started a business, employed people in a set up where you made a profit or went bust and so on?

We need a Labour party that understands why pubs are closing, hospitality is in crisis, why energy costs are a problem for manufacturing and knows what a sovereign debt crisis is.

TSE dethreaded me again. I must have said something about Yorkshire.

We have been warned:
Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK
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Reform will transform the civil service from a bloated, failed organisation hostile to the interests of the British people into a lean, performant machine that makes our country proud. 🇬🇧

On the face of it, this doesn't sound like anything to be worried about. What do you see as problematic with it?

This is obvious by now, surely? It's about 97% likely to be pure BS. Reform are an incompetent policy-free slogan machine, hoping that fools will fall for it. I doubt if they even know what they mean themselves by "Civil Service", never mind what it actually means.

We have this exact cycle from Zia himself in Kent County Council. Lots of "we will save X Y and Z". But LTNs to be cut did not exist. Woke waste to be cut did not exist. "DEI jobs" hardly existed.

It was all public information, but the numpties of Reform, including Zia himself, did not do any homework. So then he rifled through last year's local papers and social media, to find some identified savings he could claim to have "identified". And made a serious of fake claims about it. Cue a public faceplant.

So what happens next? Well, in Derbyshire they cut half the adult education centres. They had time for a proper process, but waited until the last minute and tried to do an emergency decision.

But RefUK are such a fuckwit collective that they had to admit their action was unlawful.

Vote for a clown show, and you get a circus. I don't want a circus in my Council or Government.