This is pitching for eroded state services to do more with less. I am appalled by the thread. His prior tenure is going to be the focus of the first part of the #CovidInquiry, staff attrition speaks for itself, along with latest labour supply figures
Please people. Tell me how this makes sense. With 18 months tops to go until a GE. All they can do is ignore issues and order cuts if I read this right. I saw the debt servicing predictions. People are going to bear the brunt again while private sector firms favoured
We have been direly misled and letdown by this government. It feels like time to hit the streets, but only if it causes 'minor disruption'
His speech to the CPS was all investment zones (levelling up), education outsourcing like Oak Academy, and the well worn business euphemism of an efficiency drive for public sector, plus his painfully clumsy 4 'E's
If you can make noise about this you should. We are being led by free market ideologues. It has to be enough for all of you. We should demand a #GeneralElectionNow
How many of you have been inside an overhead cutting drive hearing management say 'just work smarter not harder', no plan except cuts in hand, when you are already working a 6 day week?
Capital spend traded for years for Operational spend. A constant cycle of investigations into why holes dug over time can't be filled by hastily recruited people, expensive consultants, and AI
This is hubris, short-termism, and some systemic issues, not least partnering problems in social care. Experienced workforce retention. Training staff then losing them due to the conditions and better elsewhere
Perhaps not unexpected when you put private equity specialists and bankers in charge of public health? theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
It is categorically not too many managers, it is people who don't understand the system pushing demand around it without deep experience of the full complexity
One thing I will not miss when it is gone is Rees-Mogg's patrician drawl. His vision for the country is quite the opposite of freedom promised for almost everyone
One has to wonder what kind of constant fear some will live in knowing the secrets that Johnson had access to via WhatsApps, official briefings, and various international contacts
What bets they may be taking on who has been demonstrably loyal enough not to fall foul of his wit in upcoming writing. People who helped him make the bed we lie in and then, perhaps belatedly or only in private, realised the post hoc implication of his malleable loyalties
Means Vs ends, with means now being laid bare and ends not at all what was promised except for a very narrow set of interested parties. Some of whom a past caught up with
Do we need to school children to accept the status quo and historical definition of morals? Do we force agreement with the prevailing ethos that they are rejecting? An ethos that has shaped them, their parents and their peers for 13yrs and the lion's share of the 50yrs preceding
I abhor the culture wars and the moral panics about curricula and schools while so many are struggling. Millennials (oldest now 40+ with most of their adult life under this government) and the internet native gen Z are not stupid. Trust your young people