Tory lite is all this bunch of pricks are, that's me done with them! Couldn't be more disappointed after all their pre election talk, liers the lot of them
Corbyn knew, that’s why they all came together to go after him. He would have ended their corrupt gravy trains. Their ‘system’ is built for the 5%, the rest can go fiddle. They continue to raid our treasury like it’s their own piggy bank. E.G. HS2 and the contracts around it has all gone quiet.
As so few Lab ministers have been public sector workers they seem to have little idea how large orgs operate. NHSE has been in a state of reorganisation for years since it merged with NHS Digital etc. Staff work long hrs providing key services never knowing when/if they will have a job next year.
Perhaps the rag could ask its squealing friends in the unions how the 50000 extra civil servants, yes u heard that right, are doing less than before covid
If the Civil Service in the UK is similar to what we have here in Ireland, there are plenty of nonsense roles to be cut back, and, many bureaucratic processes to be trimmed down.
Seems like a trump movement is starting here too. I have mentioned that trump wants MUSK WANTS IN Britain and DOGE will be next just watch and see if open you fucking eyes and see what is going on … brace yourselves Britons
Sure, they can make some money but running the civil service on empty is not the British way. What is important is that it persists across governments, has flexibility and that it shouldn't depend too much on external consultancies. I'm sure there are inefficiencies but shouldn't they be retrained?
Rachel only had two choices: Rejoin the CU and SM to get the economy growing or pretend to be Elon Musk’s DOGE.
Tory’s going to Tory and these ERG types are going ruin the economy.
How is taking thousands of income earning, tax paying jobs that participated in the economy but will now increase the benefits bill helping when there is already a flatlined economy & jobs crisis?
Doh! @RachelReevesMP ?
I'm sorry but Labour's total inability to come up with a sensible narrative to describe their approach to government is beyond frustrating. There is not one decent communicator in the bunch. Civil Service numbers shot up because of Brexit - end of - its not hard!!
Austerity is why we’re here. It’s a doom spiral.
Go tax those who can afford it. NI back up by 2%. Take the contribution cap away. Go tax Amazon, Apple, Google appropriately.
Back to austerity then. I was a civil servant during the last round of this. Watching offices get closed and sold off for pennies and your colleagues at those offices get made redundant, all the while wondering if you’d be next didn’t help efficiency at all.
I thought that the rapid rise of the Civil Service 5 years ago was due to Brexit, as the UK had to take on a lot of the roles previously done by the EU. Now apparently it was due to Covid?
Whatever, if you need a new passport or driving licence, I'd get it ASAP!
We will always be in transition. We have to keep meeting the acquis, and that keeps moving.
#Brexit was always going to increase red-tape permanently. #Brexit is a permanent economic disadvantage.
“The world has changed…” Trump has shown them the way and now every government will race to be the most efficient in destroying itself. As for services? You misunderstand. How does that aid efficiency? You want services, then get them at your funeral.
The offices will close, the faciilities management and security for those offices will go. Redundancy payments were capped during the last round of austerity.
With so many services that our government provides on their knees (courts, education, environment,….) where are these cuts coming from. Please don’t tell me ‘efficiencies’ as every government has been saying this for decades.
Not that simple. Jobs increased for Brexit then Covid so is likely to have some room. Not the most efficient way to work in CS as it stands so not sure why the problem
Explain to me the difference between cuts under Labour and cuts under the Tories. And then explain to me how things will be magically different this time.
Am I the only one feeling just a tad sorry for #RachelFromAccounts? Many ppl have ‘enhanced’ their CV. Few have disappointed so many. All that ‘experience’ which reassured us she could robustly reject Treasury mindset. Now she’s just the figurehead for Treasury orthodoxy.
Well, what else can she do? Tax the rich or something?
On an unrelated note: Didn't they suddenly get some nice togs when it became clear they were about to landslide the GE! They must have been saving up for 14yrs.
Capitalism is failing because the capitalists have no where left to satisfy their endless desire for profits, so they cannibalize public goods through austerity. Many such cases.
Or alternatively- Reeves to make 10,000 people unemployed and lose their civil service careers/pensions during a cost of living crisis. Are they going to try and replace them with AI that gets facts wrong and makes up data. Were these jobs created after Brexit to deal with all the extra admin?
Imagine being fucking incompetent enough to look at the chaos of The Space Nazi's dismantling of the civil service in the US and thinking "that seems like a great idea to try here." She really is clueless.
I support Labour but it’s time for more creative thinking on financing - just like Germany is doing to fund defence and infrastructure spending and kick starting the economy. Don’t stick to Tory rules.
But that won’t work - and has been proven not too over and over and over. That is the politics of envy…… most ‘rich’ people would likely move abroad (as have millionaires at a rapid rate since Labour got in)….like them or not you need wealth creators. 🤷🏻♂️
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Governments are sledgehammers not scalpels, if you think this will be done in an intelligent manner I have a bridge to sell you.
Department of Government Idiocy
I didn’t have high hopes, but even those have been dashed. They genuinely believe in austerity, this isn’t realpolitik, it’s ideological
Depressing! Cuts cuts cuts 😔
Tory’s going to Tory and these ERG types are going ruin the economy.
Doh! @RachelReevesMP ?
Go tax those who can afford it. NI back up by 2%. Take the contribution cap away. Go tax Amazon, Apple, Google appropriately.
Not very professional, whereas Rachel Reeves was very professional!
We should be starting to shout for a better society. Labour won’t deliver it
Winter fuel payments
Disabled benefits
10,000 civil service jobs
This is their change .. 🤔 … 🙁
#taxtherich
Whatever, if you need a new passport or driving licence, I'd get it ASAP!
#Brexit was always going to increase red-tape permanently. #Brexit is a permanent economic disadvantage.
Lead from the Fore Ma'am....
Stupid economics.
The idea that we were crying out for austerity is insane. We didn’t just not vote Tory, we voted *against* the Tories.
On an unrelated note: Didn't they suddenly get some nice togs when it became clear they were about to landslide the GE! They must have been saving up for 14yrs.