Civil service cuts - a 🧵 with some initial reactions…
Civil Service told to slash running costs by 15% https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5nzy403l0o
Civil Service told to slash running costs by 15% https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5nzy403l0o
Comments
The ones making the cuts aren't going to be turkeys voting for Christmas.
The cuts will harm the public & we'll all be back in 12 months time wondering what went wrong.
Been here before...
Then these people leave and delete their spreadsheet . Makes them powerful and needed.
I'm always suspicious when teams won't allow me access to their systems underlying data.
Makes me wonder if the data is bad or the numbers fudged.
Full transparency plus much easier to combine other business data.
How to combine efficiency improvements with increased spending for an overall more effective public sector?
Tricky but possible.
Maybe all will become clearer tomorrow?
However, much of it is disingenuous politicking, and this smacks of the 2010 post crash, public vs. private sector row that the Tories weaponised to justify austerity.
It looks to be connected to the spending review and meaningful ££ cuts and savings. So it’s real, and therefore with real consequences
That “back office and not frontline” point does look more like briefing and spin
That in part reflects new post-Brexit work. But the more important point is there isn’t *that* much money to save here. Govt is going to need to make real choices about where to target cuts
We need to know exactly which of our public services & functions are now considered no longer essential!
I’d like a government with capacity to deal with crisis.
More scrutiny of cuts please.
And I've seen some cracking examples of how not to do that in social care...
The narrative that public workers are wasteful is a far right talking point.
Starmer will not win over any far right voters with this stunt.
Brexit was a major driver of this.