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Black Friday at Downing Street

Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 4, 2024, 2:43 pm

is hua hin safe

The oldest rocker in town!

Re: Black Friday at Downing Street

Posted by Stuart <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Stuart' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 4, 2024, 4:35 pm, in reply to "Black Friday at Downing Street"

Re: Black Friday at Downing Street

Posted by Andy C <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Andy+C' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 5, 2024, 4:09 pm, in reply to "Black Friday at Downing Street"

Ah Jacob Rees Mogg - he was a real cabinet Knob.

Who needs a signature anyway......

Re: Black Friday at Downing Street

Posted by G3lcs <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=G3lcs' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 5, 2024, 4:57 pm, in reply to "Re: Black Friday at Downing Street"

And now we’ve got freeloaders and fraud.

Re: Black Friday at Downing Street

Posted by laverdabru <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=laverdabru' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 5, 2024, 5:19 pm, in reply to "Re: Black Friday at Downing Street"

No change there, then.
T'was ever thus.

Re: Black Friday at Downing Street

Posted by Brickboy <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Brickboy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 5, 2024, 5:36 pm, in reply to "Re: Black Friday at Downing Street"

Is it me, or does Starmer sound more and more like Thatcher when she had run out of ideas? More targets, more 'you're not working hard enough' to civil servants and league tables for hospitals. It's just Daily Mail fodder.

You might think they'd look and say, that didn't really work, maybe we should think of our own ideas.

Re: Black Friday at Downing Street

Posted by Will <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Will' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 5, 2024, 6:57 pm, in reply to "Re: Black Friday at Downing Street"

But do they have any ideas of their own?

Re: Black Friday at Downing Street

Posted by Nigel B <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Nigel+B' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 6, 2024, 12:33 pm, in reply to "Re: Black Friday at Downing Street"

more 'you're not working hard enough' to civil servants

There are the Civil servants who work hard on the front line trying to do more with less, under appreciated and not really that well paid, and then there are the "Senior" Civil servants on very high salaries who seem increasingly to work to their own agenda and try to subvert the tasks given to them. "Yes, Minister ! " in the real world.

Mrs B was a Civil servant for one of the front-line departments for over 41 years. During that time she saw, time after time, policies that had been tried before being regurgitated as "the next big solution" by straight-out-of-university policy "advisers" who would not listen to those who had tried to implement the same policies decades before without success. Also saw policies that were having a positive effect canned by a change of administration because of idealogical differences.

The CS used to pride itself as being impartial and to serve whichever admistration that was in power without bias - that does not appear to be the case today. Just as current politicians are seen as being out of touch and not really competent due to a lack of actually having worked for a living before entering politics, so it is with many Whitehall senior civil servants.

Aother depressing though is that Local Govenment organisations are substantially less comptetent than the national departments, yet operate on higher salary scales. You should be worried when you hear thet changes are made to give Local Authorities more control over budgets & how nationally decided schemes are implemented at a local level - can't think there are many examples where that has worked out better !

Nigel B.

Re: Black Friday at Downing Street

Posted by Lannis <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Lannis' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 6, 2024, 2:23 pm, in reply to "Re: Black Friday at Downing Street"

The entrenched bureaucracy you describe is what's known as The Deep State here.

No matter who is elected, no matter what the taxpayers want, they have been there for 20 or 40 years, and they run things in a way to benefit themselves.

I experienced that when I was elected to our School Board. Anything the Board wanted to do that THEY didn't like, they would slow-roll, or lean backwards on, and nothing seemed to change

We have a chance here to get rid of some of these shadowy dictators, but we can't assume that the window of opportunity will be there long.

Lannis

I don't take health advice from people who think the world is overpopulated.

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