If the alternative is not having enough train drivers, isn't that just things costing what they cost? There's a famous Conservative Prime Minister who had something to say about trying to buck the ma… (View Post)
And that's symptomatic of a wider issue. We've gone well past the point of unions holding the public sector to ransom. It's that individual workers are voting with their feet and deciding that they w… (View Post)
One of the maddening things is that there are the germs of a couple of maybe decent (but not cheap) ideas here. One is a widely-available, competitive but easy application process Public Service Inte… (View Post)
To a reasonable order of magnitude approximation, they aren't. (This is a hilarious example of the problem with being an incumbent government. The only reason this is an issue is because some nitwit … (View Post)