Whoever dreamt up the name Operation Chainsaw to describe Ministersâ efforts to get back some lost public sector productivity was clearly no friend of the idea. As the head of the civil service union, FDA, said âThe idea that you can simply get more for less is rhetoricâ. His statement swept aside the idea that better management and new technology allows productivity gains. He ignored the fact that productivity has been falling. He has to defend the proposition that year after year we should expect to have to pay more for less.
Ministers are right to highlight the fall in productivity since 2019 and to ask senior staff to get back the losses from covid lockdowns as the private sector has already done. It does not take any new technology or investment to recreate 2019 productivity levels in the pre AI age. AI gains could come  on top.
The principles behind the drive, to expect more of senior managers and to link bonuses to productivity delivery are fine. Ministers should also demand to see any new external recruitment before advertising, as natural wastage is a friendly way to shrink an overstaffed organisation.
March 13, 2025
Good morning.
How many government departments are there ? And who created them ?
I ask these obvious questions because we were promised, many, many times, a bonfire of QUANGO’s and the such like, never to see it happen.
Once a department is created and a Minister appointed comes the various staff, offices, stationary and so on. Numerous ‘non-jobs’ are created to meet HR requirements such as appointing someone to head department diversity requirements and so on. Who created the legislation that formally requires such roles ? Again I ask the simple question.
Asking for better outcomes without first asking for genuine need is rather putting the cart before the horse. Maybe it would be better if we didn’t have a Department for Scotland and one for Wales since they now have their own devolved administrations ? Maybe we should not have a department for governing sport and so on since as we have discussed, sport can manage itself quite successfully without government interference.
As I want to say. We can do more with less. We just have to start at the beginning with the desire to create more government departments and such to award friends with government jobs.
March 13, 2025
Indeed Blairâs appalling devolution was a disaster. People now forced to learn to speak Welsh to get jobs or at School. When I was young we often went to wales on holiday and rarely heard anyone speak it at all.
âThe idea that you can simply get more for less is rhetoricâ. Well one way is to stop doing all the things that
the do that do nothing positive or do positive harm. Road blocking, motorist mugging, rigging the housing market, energy market, schools market, over taxing, over regulating, rigging the finance, banking and investment and above all the insanity of Edâs net zero zealotry.
Why does he use the word ârhetoricâ when he surely means ânot trueâ does he know what ârhetoricâ means? Perhaps given the current staff and structures it is hard as they have no incentives to deliver productivity and much of what they do deliver is not delivering any public service but public inconvenience and vast over taxation (and back door taxation like their vast motorist mugging and fines agenda etc.)
March 13, 2025
Our friends moved to North Wales with their daughter, who was a trained oncology nurse. She applied for a job in a local hospital for a role for which she was both qualified and experienced in. She was rejected because she didn’t speak Welsh, even though the HR person told her that she’d been trying to fill the job for many months and that there was an urgent need. In the end, she had to commute to a hospital just over the border in Chester. This was some years ago now and hopefully this kind of bureaucratic stupidity doesn’t happen these days?
March 13, 2025
I suspect it almost certainly does and how many Welsh only speakers are there in Wales? Would they rather they dies due to lack of treatments?
So trump has described Climate Alarmism as “a hoax” it most certainly is (in essence) a gross exaggeration! When will mad zealot Ed Miliband be fired or perhaps just catch on?
March 13, 2025
When indeed will Kemi, Claire Countinho, Sunak and the rest of the face Concervative catch on too?
March 13, 2025
Perhaps a simple solution would be to abolish or severely limit NON WORKING FROM HOME. Then get rid of all DEI/ESG/full time union jobs on work time. Sack everyone looking for a grievance and not working. Cut management severely and bring EVERYONE into performance management based on tangible results. What is their role? What have they achieved? Is it above, at, or below standard?
March 13, 2025
They almost never sack anyone at all. They sometimes resign with large payoffs and pensions.
March 13, 2025
Mark B
The simple questions for Mp’s to ask would be, If we were to start a system again:
Would it look anything like it does now. ?
If the answer is no, then:
If we were to start the system again,
How would it be designed/improved/managed, what would/should be needed, excluded, included, and what would be the cost.
Then work a solution on the basis of the answers.
March 13, 2025
Unlikely they would ever do anything that sensible.
March 13, 2025
Construction work used to be 8am to 6pm. It was reliant on bonuses and piecework. Now I see builders outside pubs from about 3pm onwards. No wonder Eastern Europeans are now taking their jobs.
When I go up town it is difficult to know who is a worker. Office workers dress the same as non workers and tourists.
In the private sector poor productivity eventually leads to failure and job losses. Public sector does not have such a link. Removal of government funding is one way to address the issue. However, the danger is inefficient leaders remain in place and keep favoured employees while better staff lose their jobs.
March 13, 2025
Peter
Think you will find most construction workers do still work 8.00am until 5-6pm at the very least !
Sometimes when a job finishes before the end of the day, it is inefficient to go to the next job because no point spending time travelling to a site just to unload tools, to do half an hours work, and then have to load up tools again before going home, far simpler to get yourself organised or complete paperwork and go to the next job the following day.
Unfortunately during the winter, day light hours are nearer 8.30 – 4.00pm so working outside on site not possible, add on the time to source, purchase, and collect materials, many hours can be accounted for off site. Then the dreaded paperwork for Vat returns, HMRC, and general Accounting also needs to be completed off site.
Vehicles also need to be serviced and maintained.
Likewise if you have spent all of your life in Construction, then your body is often knackered by the time you are 55-60 years old so you are not capable physically to do what you could when you were 30 years old.
Most people working in Construction I would suggest are self employed, they can work or rest at will, but remember, No Work – no pay. take a Holiday – no pay, Sickness – no pay., no employers Pension contributions either, etc, etc.
Perhaps a very small percentage may end up in a pub somewhere, but please do not generalise.
March 13, 2025
Natural wastage is a political solution. Taking back control of a runaway train recognises the urgency of the situation. As I have said often before the Civil Service need a new contract of employment with an official Secrets Act clause included, and hire and fire in the ultimate control of ministers. The CS has become so inbred as to have all the symptoms of first cousin marriage. Reduction in size is needed for sure, along with injections from outside gene pools.
Do I see it happening or being effected by the current army of ill experienced politicians, no. They are too akin to the Longbridge management of Red Robbo’s day, not in control of the vehicle but driven by it. Just like Longbridge, they are insolvent in the widest sense of the word, but do not know it because none have run a market stall.
March 13, 2025
Agreed except it was the BL board that took the decision to sack Red Robbo. Michael Edwardes describes the event in his book.
As for the civil service it seems that the only solution will be enforced spending limits by the Treasury.
March 13, 2025
agricola:
A 2-year contract for Civil Servants could be better suited than the current endless ones. That way, if they can demonstrate their work has added adequate useful value after 2 years, they could be considered worth employing for another year or two.
March 13, 2025
The NHS continues to recruit Diversity Managers despite Streeting banning the practice.
The RAF is short of pilots because of positive discrimination when recruiting.
HMRC and the DVLA staff continue to shirk from home to name just two.
A near neighbour had been working for the council from home since Covid struck. She is more ofter walking the dog or running.
We are paying through the nose for this whilst the accrue gold plated pensions.
Yesterday the transport minister said we could expect more strikes in the public sector despite salaries being some of the highest in Europe.
I bet non of the useless Managers are sacked, just those at the coal face who might actually be doing something useful.
March 13, 2025
Indeed do we really want inferior people employed as pilots, managers, surgeons, engineers, fire people, Chancellors⊠due to their colour, religion, gender or sexuality? Eventually the planes crash, the bridges fall down, the economy crashesâŠ
The day DEI went up in smoke
DOUGLAS MURRAY in the Spectator has it spot on.
March 13, 2025
After 25 years, post Blairs walk through the lefty/woke institutions we now have reached critical mass. All the DEI/ESG appointments mean we have a load of wokesters who promote more……….WOKE. It’s not about competence but views, values and beliefs that are alien to the rest of us. Climate change anyone? Now that’s working for our power generation and manufacturing industries,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,said no one, anywhere, ever!
March 13, 2025
In the NHS the DEI and sustainable manages are often better paid than the doctors and their job is often just to inconvenience the productive medical workers.
March 13, 2025
Just as a technical point it is possible that one cannot get more out of the existing machine, even whilst productivity declines. This is basic thermodynamics or information theory. If the maximum possible output of the government machine is P and you divide it over a population N and define productivity as P/N, then productivity declines as either N is increased or P is decreased. If P = PMAX then declining productivity is the expected effect of immigration of large numbers of unproductive people. We know there has been a large increase in the unproductive population of UK so we should expect productivty of the state to decline. How do we know that P has declined by more than N has increased or that it has declined at all? How is productivity in the public sector defined? Some define it in a way that includes quality as well as quantity of output. That I suggest is very hard to measure.
The World Bank has published papers on the simple question of how to measure public sector productivity. The answer is complex and uncertain. The UK Productivity Institute suggests (Insights â Apr 10th, 2024) reasons why it is so hard to measure:
1. Many public sector organisations have preventative roles â e.g., the fire services aim to prevent as well as tackle fires. It is important that both the benefits of preventative activities are recorded as outputs, and that the outcomes that they aim to prevent are not.
2. It is difficult to attribute social outcomes to specific public sector organisations. This is partly because they may be influenced by the broader social and economic environment, and because different organisations affect the same outcomes.
3. Quality-adjusting outputs and inputs is much harder in the public sector due to the absence of prices at the point of delivery. Currently, fewer than two-thirds of productivity measures in government services are quality-adjusted, however, quality-adjustment can have a significant impact on headline statistics
4. The data required often do not exist or are not timely or detailed enough.
It shows from ONS data how non-quality-adjusted productivity falls over the period 1997-2016, but quality-adjusted productivity increases, with a stronger divergence as time goes on.
https://www.productivity.ac.uk/news/redefining-public-sector-productivity/
So when people say productivity has increased or decreased it is important that they define what they mean by productivity. By one definition it declined, by another it increased.
Reply I am using ONS calculations. There is little evidence public sector quality of service has risen in recent years to offset collapse in official figures.
March 13, 2025
Here’s a good demonstration of the point made.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/government-spending-to-gdp
We are clearly paying more for less, or perhaps call it, Being taxed more to produce less. Note this does not show 2025, but the direction of travel and Keith in charge, and spending more on defence(?), we are going to look like France in a short time!
March 13, 2025
Any measurement of productivity is problemmatic, clearly, and perhaps only comparisons rather than absolutes are valid often times. I will be interested to see how Ministers cope with handling the reactions of civil servants, many of whom I suppose may see the Operation Chainsaw exercise as an unveiled attack on their own industriousness when some may be working harder than ever, just not producing a commensurate quantity of outputs.
March 13, 2025
The existing machine is clapped out, needing heavy maintenance or dumping for complete renewal.
March 13, 2025
It is only in the public sector where a below inflation budget increase is branded as a cut. The FDA is a trade union and exists to protect the interests of its members. They are never going to welcome any attempt to shrink the public service.
I think that the best way to proceed would be to abolish some departments in total. This would mean that a minister would lose his job, but it would be an easy way of cutting headcount through redundancy.
March 13, 2025
Interestingly when a union forces up wages they nearly always do so by reducing the number of their union members employed as the more they cost the fewer the business takes on. Also in the private sector pushes up the cost of the products/services delivers so less is sold and the company reduces in size.
Milton Friedman âWhen unions get higher wages for their members by restricting entry into an occupation, those higher wages are at the expense of other workers who find their opportunities reduced. When government pays its employees higher wages, those higher wages are at the expense of the taxpayer.
March 13, 2025
A below inflation budget increase is probably a cut in what it can buy if its costs have inflated.
âInflationâ is often regarded as an all-inclusive figure, but is merely a balance of ups and downs. In some cases the major costs a specific govt dept is involved with and incurs could have reduced substantively. In that circumstance, even a âbelow inflationâ budget could generate an increase in spending power.
Even so, whatever they are allocated, govt tends to waste enormous amounts carelessly.
March 13, 2025
The noises coming out of Moscow with regards to the 30 day ceasefire proposal are not good. Russia may have presented the U.S. with the usual maximalist list of demands for a deal to end its war against Ukraine and reset relations with Washington.
The war criminal Putin has previously demanded no NATO membership for Kyiv, an agreement not to deploy foreign troops in Ukraine (as this will hinder the next phase of their campaign) and international appeasement of their claim that Crimea and the four Eastern Ukraine provinces belong to Russia by right of military conquest.
Putin will use any truce to intensify efforts to divide the Americans, Ukraine and Europe and will certainly undermine any subsequent talks with repeated violations of the ceasefire, blaming the Ukrainians
The only thing the Russians respect is strength. The West must rapidly rebuild it’s military, particularly ground forces and artillery, and deploy along any ceasefire line. Nothing else will deter Putin from another assault on Kiev when they have rebuilt their forces
March 13, 2025
SG :
We could only start to re-build our military by first ditching the nonsense that is Net Zero. There is no climate emergency. Just look at Table 12 in Chapter 12 of the IPCC Working Group 1 (“The Science”) report. The reason for Net Zero is to de-industrialise, impoverish and weaken the West’s military security. The activists have no issues with Russia and China’s CO2 emissions.
March 13, 2025
Russia wants, but does not need, a peaceful solution to the SMO in Ukraine. It can just carry on and win. Iâm afraid the delusion of people like you in believing that NATO can beat Russia is going to bring about a public and undeniable defeat for NATO and the west.
Russia asks that the root cause of the war are remedied so that any settlement will bring permanent peace. But you and van der Leyen want to âRearm Europeâ, which includes Germany!
You will have a war on your hands, donât worry, but it will not be with Russia or any other country. And you personally will be on the front line.
Good luck!
March 13, 2025
President Milei thought up the Chainsaw imagery. If he can do it in Argentina, we can do it here. First though, we need an electorate who are at the end of their tether and politicians who are prepared to fight the blob fearlessly. Neither conditions are yet in place.
March 13, 2025
The new Labour government has clearly identified the QUANGOs and the civil service as the likely place to make savings for their proposed increase in defence expenditure. Over 25% of the UK workforce are employed by the government and the QUANGOs alone get to spend ÂŁ350bn of taxpayers money. None of these organisations export anything.
If Labour manage to reduce the size of the bloated civil service by introducing AI, the savings going forward will be considerable and will multiply as the taxpayer will no longer have to fund their non-contributory, index linked final salary pensions. The best thing that those who lose their jobs can do is to start their own online business – and get involved in the global digital economy
March 13, 2025
Oh – you donât want them to make anything to export?
March 13, 2025
Chainsaw is very apt. It needs a fast, sharp cut through noisy application of force to solve the excess in the CS.
March 13, 2025
Petrol-driven or electric?
March 13, 2025
Although their efforts will no doubt be in vain it is at least encouraging that Starmer is attempting to make spending cuts in certain departments and areas, the last Conservative government didn’t bother.
March 13, 2025
To get back to previous years’ productivity, do you not also need to get back to previous years’ legislation? Government continually increases the legislation, so the civil service has to expand to perform it. There needs to be a programme to chuck out old legislation as well, but that means work for government and they can’t be bothered. Much like a teenager with an untidy bedroom, only there’s no mum to tell him to tidy up. So we have the clutter of legislation.
The additional diversity managers are needed because the courts continually find new ways to interpret the Equality Act, policies needs to be rewritten and expanded and the staff have to go through more extensive training. Extra work and expenditure for no benefit. Government needs to get a grip on it, but they are distracted on other things.
March 13, 2025
Worth listening to the Gold/Truss interview on YouTube. Then she explains about Civil Service v Politicians interacted with the Blair/May laws on Non Equality, Human Rights, Company legislation.
All designed to do away with merit and anti white Englishmen. The boiling frogs are waking up.
March 13, 2025
A chainsaw is used to carry out a significant reduction in the growth of a tree or, if large enough, to fell it. I think the pathetic attempt to reduce the growth in the Civil Service would be more accurately named “Operation Secateurs.” To make a significant reduction the Government would need to revise whole swathes of policy, scrap Regulations and stop trying to micro-manage our lives.
It isn’t going to happen.
I’m a retired Civil Servant; not a career one, I joined from the private sector. Working in the CS is a cushy little number which is perfect for people who WANT a reasonably well-paid cushy little number which allows them to prioritise the needs of their personal circumstances/lives. It is the nearest thing to a job-for-life regardless of how they perform and which will, in due course, provide a comfortable retirement without any of the risks those working in the private sector now face. Institutional inertia and mind-numbing bureaucracy is built-in and it will be impossible to change that all the time the current individuals occupying the Senior Civil Service remain in place.
Cummings was right. It needs fundamental reform and Department Heads/Managers brought in from the private sector.
March 13, 2025
It is more like taking nail scissors to an oak branch.
March 13, 2025
That remains to be seen.
So far this government has done the opposite of what they promised, so can we look forward to an even more bloated, unproductive, and wasteful civil service?
The detail will be in the small print – let’s see what nasty surprises they are cooking up.
March 13, 2025
Calls are already going out to bring back subscription for the armed forces now or risk being powerless
This must be resisted – we cannot allow 2-tier dictator Starmer to take us into a war without end – because if Trump doesn’t succeed Ukraine will certainly keep fighting, especially with the EU and UK pledging to bankrupt themselves to have a shot at destroying Russia.
March 13, 2025
The UK and France(or rather their elites) have the most to lose -there’s no place for them in the new Russia-China led Eurasian world order.
March 15, 2025
There is no place for them in Europe or the U.K. They are NOT elite – elitists.
March 13, 2025
âOperation Chainsawâ Refers to the Argentine President Javier Milei, campaigning with a chainsaw to reduce Government waste. He came in cut 10âs of thousands of jobs, reduced State expenditure and is attributed with turning around a basket case into a growing confident Country.
It also refers to the Italian PM Giorgia Meloni who has done similar to turnaround Italy. As of today she is the only EU PM that is not wishing to join Starmer and Macron on their ego trip with regards the Ukraine.
The root of all the UKâs woes is and absent PM, grandstanding elsewhere for his personal ego. It is just deflection that for some reason the MsM is playing ball on – but the World isn’t listening. The refusal of TTK and his team to do the only job they are paid for â manage the UK
March 13, 2025
It looks like the Ukrainians might have suffered more KIA in the Kursk adventure than the USA lost during the entire Vietnam war-the remnants are now scuttling out under fire.
Every bit the ‘suicide safari’ that serious military analysts said it would be right from the start.
March 13, 2025
And they are being treated as Terrorists because this is not a âwarâ. Western mercenaries are beginning to panic.
March 13, 2025
The notion of NOT being able to get more for less is lazy and crazy.
Simply changing a tungsten light bulb to an LED does so instantly.
The head of the Civil Service Union, FDA probably had a tungsten bulb moment when his brain overloaded that dim idea.
March 13, 2025
We can make immediate savings and therefore the same for less by moving civil servants to the defined contribution workplace pension scheme going forward with 3% employee and 5% employee contribtions.
Talk about civil service schemes being fully funded is spurious when employer contributions are 20-30%
March 13, 2025
Some parts of the public sector are very productive. The fines department have taken ÂŁ300 from me over the last 6 months. One while I was cleaning my car outside my garage, one for overstaying for 5 minutes in a light touch area when refurbishing a house wrecked by tenants, one while unloading my car, one for doing 34 mph in a 30 limit despite averaging 10mph, and a fine 3 times at each cameras when accidentally driving through a deserted one way bus lane at night in the rain when the sign was obscured by a bus and the white markings were invisible. Then I got a bill from the council for ÂŁ4800 double council tax on furnished lettings because I haven’t finished refurbishment of the wrecked house that the tenants moved out of, leaving a lot of their furniture. The latter is because councils now have discretion to charge double tax. In this case the tax is as much as the rent for one tenant.
But of course, they have to pay for their pensions somehow.
March 13, 2025
Not just pensions, but adult social care.
March 13, 2025
‘Ireland took America’s pharma industry’ – like Trump thinks it’s still Christmas and he’s playing Monolopy or Risk ..
(Yes, there is some truth to what he says just as there is some truth behind the principles of how Monolopy works but life and the economy and tarrifs etc are more complicated than Christmas board games)
March 13, 2025
Ireland did steal a lot of corporation tax from us all, using its beggar thy neighbour policies within the Tarriff Wall of the EU.
March 14, 2025
Regarding Greenland, why isn’t Trump going down the win-win Condominium approach? (Like Antartica). That would be a win-win for the USA and Denmark (and people of Greenland). Trump make good arguments regarding Greenland but his approach is too aggressive (which turns people against him – this is not Monopoly) and sets dangerous precedents for Taiwan and other places around the world
March 14, 2025
Basically, Denmark receives 50% of any revenues from potential oil / gas / rare earths. And the price it pays for military protection from USA is 50% of the resources long-term. For Trump to just try and ‘take’ Greenland would be an infringement of sovereignty that’s not just a moral issue but also legal and geo-political – take your pick. But millions of Republicans let alone Democrats would be unhappy with that. And so you’re creating uncertainty for the future. Condominium isn’t perfect either but better than nothing or chaos.
March 13, 2025
Put most of the present civil service mundane, purely routine clerical jobs out to tender. A good example of how it can be done is the excellent on-line method of renewing your passport. A few billion to be saved here.
March 13, 2025
I think to really make a dent into numbers & therefore costs, would require Legislation to be repealed – and hence remove need for the Civil Service numbers for its enforcement. Given that most politicians want to “do things”, this presents a dilemma for both Ministers and MPs who both want to be seen to be ‘doing things’.
As usual, refer to your copies of “Yes Minister” for the likely outcome.
Therefore expect no change…
March 13, 2025
Ministers are right to highlight the fall in productivity since 2019 and to ask senior staff to get back the losses from covid lockdowns as the private sector has already done.Why is Covid the easy cop out for the lack of uselessness , we are in third situation because people are allowed to refuse to do the jobs they are paid for, whatâs needed is a big drive on the 16-30 age group and given three choices Apprenticeships/ factory jobs/ or the arm forces just get people back into employment and reduce the billions spent on them to not do sod all
March 13, 2025
” Starmer: I will tackle our flabby state”
Record tax-and-spend has failed to improve front-line services, PM tells The Telegraph
The Telegraph has moved left trying to replace the Guardian as the Labour Governments favored organ. Once a week TTK gets to write a sermon for them on all the things he ‘will do’. In the mean time TTK is running around the World escaping from his real job and reality seeking out adoration from people that don’t care and don’t see him figuring in any real solutions. They have seen the wreaking ball he is with his to tier justice and two tier society, does any one want that?
March 13, 2025
‘Sir Keir Starmer has announced the Labour Government will abolish NHS England, the quango that manages the health service.’
âSo today Iâm going to reverse it because I donât see why decisions about ÂŁ200 billion of taxpayer money on something as fundamental to our security as the NHS should be taken by an arms-length body, NHS England.”
Then also why is the Health Secretary that sits in the ‘UK Cabinet’ only the Health Secretary of England? As he has no say in the UK
March 13, 2025
Productivity in the Civil Service will never improve unless the numbers are drastically reduced. What do 530,000 Civil Servants do all day? But the Conservatives did nothing about it in 14 years, and the chances of Labour being serious about cutting the numbers are nil!
You may not like President Trump and his DOGE department, and we need to see if they can really cut government spending, fighting against so many vested interests, but if it works it will be wonderful for the USA.
It seems the Home Office, the Foreign Office and HMRC are useless, so start by abolishing all three.
The Trade Unionist’s comment is typical of their approach. To hell with what the UK needs to avoid bankruptcy, my members come first. But there is not a Minister in this Government that will stand up to them.
March 13, 2025
âWhoever dreamt up the name Operation Chainsaw to describe Ministersâ efforts to get back some lost public sector productivity was clearly no friend of the idea.â
“Elon Musk waves ‘bureaucracy chainsaw’ gifted by Argentina:
Argentina’s President Javier Milei gifted Elon Musk a chainsaw during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington DC on Thursday. ”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/crmj284d0k8o
21/02/2025
March 13, 2025
“As the head of the civil service union, FDA, said âThe idea that you can simply get more for less is rhetoricâ”
Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he?
March 13, 2025
He clearly is not the man for the job / challenge. I think therefore he should be the first to go.
March 13, 2025
THE END GAME IS GETTING CLOSER
The majority of the people in this country have neither the capacity nor the time to evaluate just how much Starmer and co are doing us harm. Happily a few wake up every day, but the BBC, with their fake news, has got TOO MANY nailed down.
It’s taken a long time to get where we are – where not so long ago prolific political commentators sat on the fence, edging away from anything that looked like extreme right scare stories – even they now recognize we have moved well beyond the worst of these stories.1984 is progressing at a hectic pace.
As we move ever closer to a destructive end we still have some interim steps to look forward to:
– banking failure – now they will be allowed to steal money directly from our accounts;
– food shortages – Farmers will have no choice but to sell up;
– restrictive road practices – on the way to 15 minute cities;
– holiday restrictions – abroad becoming too expensive;
– a failing NHS – we will die more often and wait longer to do so in the inefficient hospitals;
– taxes continue to rise- they haven’t finished yet, some of us can still just afford to keep our heads above water, but not for much longer;
– Justice continues to be perverted – criminals of foreign birth are being treated better than the indigenous population;
– restrictions on resources – fuel will become more expensive along with gas, water and electricity, while more smart meters are imposed on us so that they can cut off supplies at a whim;
– id cards – we are being encouraged to put everything on smart phones along with electronic id cards which will be imposed at some point – we will be susceptible to ever more bank hacking and oppressive laws;
After this we will start to see the real NWO plans disguised as net0 come into play. If we do get to see another general election I doubt it will make any difference!
March 13, 2025
Still an âif onlyâ moment. Lets hope he has read and understands Sir Johns Diary. The real proof will not be the speeches, it will be the actions. It will not come from consolidation, merging and just moving the numbers around but keeping them on board the âgravy trainâ
Prime Minister hints at further quango cuts �
âIâve said to every single member of the Cabinet, I want every single regulatory body that comes within your remit to be identified. I want you to look at them all, I want to put them on the table and have a look at them. And thereâs too many, and weâve got too many arms-length bodies and agencies and yes, my reflection is weâve got to cut through that.â
Is he suggesting that Ministers are actually the Management, the ones that oversee the doling out of taxpayerâs money? The ones responsible for the return on those they spray our money?
My feeling, as it is proven time and time again, those at the top will get promoted and paid more and the âminionsâ will be sacrificed.
March 13, 2025
The only way a new incoming administration will be able to govern at all and take on the Uniparty, Civil Service, quangos, regulators and the judiciary will be by instituting a series of referendums.
March 13, 2025
O/T Given todayâs announcement on the NHS I looked at JRâs take on Lansleyâs reform
23/01/2011 Reforming the NHS.
24/01/2011 How will the NHS reform work?
09/05/2011 The LibDems extensive health reform agenda.
yorkshirepost.co.uk 04/04/2011 Drop the NHS ideology and let patients and GPs decide.
(14 years later some of the comments are hilarious âŠ)
Lansleyâs reform was abolished in 2022 due to its catastrophic results. Despite annual injections of money the NHS has been limping since then.
Will Starmer-Streetingâs plan bring an improvement?
Reply My articles were sceptical and pointed out he would need to restrain central interference and bureaucracy and would need to persuade GPs to exercise care and choice when commissioning. Instead NHS England took over.
March 13, 2025
I doubt there will be change this year or next year, change will never happen whilst we reward managers for failure. Or promote them to another role. Thirty years in HM Police Service I watched with incredulity as the reward for failure guaranteed promotion or transfer to another division, kick the can down the road but do not rock the boat whilst so doing. And my late father in law who joined in 1935 watched similar tactics.
March 13, 2025
Indeed that is how it usually works in my experience.
March 13, 2025
Operation Chainsaw is just a joke as it invokes Musk and the USA Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) which while is desperately needed here is a Red Flag for the deeply entrenched Civil Service unions fortress or should I say Millstone / Albatross suffocating any progress not in line with the EU bureaucracy. Everything in triplicate / duplicated and translated into dozens of languages etc etc.
I can only imagine what reception anyone independently carrying out any efficiency review would be doomed to failure and regarded as persona non grata and a fire threat to the status quo cemented in law and concretely impervious to more work with less resources and money.
They have an array of excuses why they shouldn’t follow the nasty Private Sector and emulate an even milder British version of DOGE.
Sadly they have a NATO mindset when threatened to “protect the country” from itself, whereas the reality is they only protect their growing membership and power base.
March 13, 2025
The starting point must be a firm commitment to reduce the civil service headcount to the numbers in 2016, the lowest point in the last 20 years. This number of posts will need to be increased by a limited number of additional posts brought about by Brexit. Although these will be easily be funded several times over by the ÂŁ12-20bn we are no longer paying to Brussels, the number of extra posts can easily be calculated and costed, and a target implemented.
Further reductions will be possible with improved adminstrative techniques copied from the private sector and going forward, AI will make significant inroads into costs and manpower levels, althougth it will be vital to treat this as a seperate issue.
Overall, we must aim to keep numbers at no more than 2016 levels and limit the number of promotions to prevent grade inflation. Very substantial financial savings must be possible in addition to the savings that can be made by abolishing gold plated final salary pension schemes.
However, none of this happened under the Conservatives and it certainly won’t under Labour, unless they bring in a private sector executive team to manage the changes and stick rigidly to the target numbers.
March 13, 2025
Abolishing NHS England at this time is only another attempt by PM Starmer to impress President Trump – to get on his good side – but will make no difference because Trump is in a world all his own oblivious to the chaos and carnage around him.
March 14, 2025
You men Trump is unaware of the NHS – the personification of âchaos and carnageâ?
March 13, 2025
An enormous number of Civil Service jobs could be cut by cancelling Net Zero. Not only are these jobs useless because there is no climate emergency (see the IPCC Table 12 in Chapter 12) but they are sabotaging our industry, prosperity, freedoms and national security.