The problem that every incoming administration has is that there are no levers of power.
You work in a highly politicised environment where delivery is heavily mediated, where people are overstretched and probably lack the skills you want, and where incentives are completely unaligned.
You work in a highly politicised environment where delivery is heavily mediated, where people are overstretched and probably lack the skills you want, and where incentives are completely unaligned.
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Henry Zeffman
One of the most striking themes in Keir Starmer’s speech today — his frustration with Whitehall
For weeks I’ve been asking Labour people what they make of their time in government and one sentiment comes up again and again:
“Dominic Cummings was right”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
For weeks I’ve been asking Labour people what they make of their time in government and one sentiment comes up again and again:
“Dominic Cummings was right”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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You cannot expect innovation, risk taking and radicalism from a blame culture.
Did any of it get done?
Risk, blame culture sounds like a soundbite without being part of a wider description of the culture.
Also, just as importantly, I find it hard to believe there is a single homogenous culture across the civil service.
If I wasn't busy with shit right now, I'd do a Fred on this stuff.
The hard stuff is the easy stuff, the soft stuff is the hard stuff.
We* are only human after all
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