You would think getting the UK public sector back to 2019 levels three years after the end of covid lockdowns and disruption would be easy. After all the public sector knew how to work at that level 6 years ago. There has been plenty of Ministerial enthusiasm and instruction to do that, under the last government and this one. The UK private sector is back above 2019 levels, showing recovery is more than possible. The public sector instead of struggling to get back to 2019 levels should be aiming to be at least 5% higher than then to allow for missed improvements in subsequent years.
Instead officials have offered to get the government overhead down by 2029, after spending more in the meantime. The central government overhead is in the budget at £14.08bn this year, rising to £16.23 bn next (up 14%) , down to £14.89 bn in 2027-8, still 4% above this year. That is all because they have put in an extra budget line called a Transformation fund, with an eye popping £2 bn next year on technology and a further £1bn the following year. The pay off for this extra spend is only fully apparent in 2029-30 after the election when we see a better reduction in the costs of the overhead.
It may well be that spending more on bought in AI can enhance quality and raise productivity. This should be on top of getting back to 2019 levels of productivity based on pre AI technology. We should not have to spend £3.25bn to reclaim those losses, but should expect much more of a gain from such spending. After £250 m this year it is a suspiciously round £2bn next year as a budget. What projects are assumed? Why are these costs said to be one offs? Isn’t most AI a service provided by large US corporations where there will be running costs all the time you use it?
What questions did Ministers ask about this budget line? How much of it is truly capital and how much service contracts that may continue? How much of it can be done in house? What action is being taken to secure the old tech productivity recoveries before adding in new AI gains?
The truth of course is the poor productivity reflects recruiting too many people to do the same work and recruiting people to do work that is not strictly necessary to providing a good service. Some of us work from home when we are more productive there, but do all those who spend days away from the office achieve as much or more than when they came in? Is there proper supervision of homeworking?
To raise productivity and to keep the overhead under control means fewer people and smarter working. I am amazed they are still recruiting and adding to numbers. The first easy thing to do is to impose a complete ban on recruiting more from outside, other than where a good specialist case can be made to a Minister, excluding trained medics, teachers and uniformed personnel. I see no need for expensive and unpleasant compulsory redundancies but plenty of scope to manage down and amalgamate some of the jobs as people leave or as they can be persuaded to move within the service.
Instead the government blames Brexit and Nigel Farage for their productivity failings. That’s a great way for Labour to lose more votes, as people are not that stupid.
October 14, 2025
Starmer’s Gang is entirely negative. It destroys and cuts down what it hates. It does not build up. It sees nothing in Britain apart form what it hates. Its only vision for the future of Britain is to make it a supplicant to an international socialist order run by people like Starmer and Hermer. It does not want thriving private industry. It wants industry to be owned and run either by the state or by a corporate supporter of its new world order. It has this in common with Fascists and Communists. Like all socialist governments it blames its inevitable failures on others. Socialists believe the solution to socialist failure is always more and more authoritarian socialism and more destruction of what it hates.
October 14, 2025
You say people aren’t that stupid but the Green Party are claiming 100k members. Are people that gullible. I listened to that Polanski fellow and he’s a full on (socialist? ed)He never spoke about any environmental issues only ribbing the rich and not so rich.
This government sees the Public sector as their core vote and as such will continue to expand it. It matters not one iota if a post is necessary just another liebour voters.
They are doing an excellent job of destroying the country. Let’s hope it’s their last hurrah
October 14, 2025
He is surely totally mad in my book but then hypnotism for breast enlargement is probable less damaging than actual enlargement operations!
Boris in his recent telegraph interview still thinks his fastest roll out of Covid Vaccines was an achievement alas the 400 billion wasted on them and lockdowns did vast net harm as they were unsafe and ineffective the lockdowns cost a fortune and merely delayed natural “vaccinations” with no net benefit quite the reverse. Boris say he was following the science alas he was not following sensible Barrington Declaration types of scientists. Follow the vaccine money and our duff regulators!
October 14, 2025
Today for the third day in a row there is very little wind both here and in mainland Europe
Gas and nuclear are generating 77% of which 7% is being sent to Holland, Belgium and Norway
We are paying enormous carbon levies in CCGT generation and exporting the power to prop up the European grid. Roll on winter
October 14, 2025
Unemployment up to 4.8%, youth unemployment circa 20% and 2TK wants to import 50,000 unemployed youth from the EU
Only a socialist could think this a good idea.
October 14, 2025
What about the hidden under-employment, how much has that increased? Those that were doing full now time 16 hours on UC?
October 14, 2025
+1
October 14, 2025
A moronic socialist or perhaps just someone who actually wants to help destroy the UK’s economy, increase crime, depress wages, depress living standards…an enemy of the UK?
October 15, 2025
He’ll be helping to “share the load” of the EU’s youth unemployment problem. That’s how pro-EU Socialists think; level everyone down.
October 14, 2025
@Peter Gardner +1, well said Peter
October 14, 2025
Boris Telegraph interview, all bluster and no apologies. His main appalling errors were Covid where he virtually got everything wrong especially the net harm vaccines and lockdowns, HS2, Net Zero, Immigration levels, a botched Brexit but he was not quite as dire as net zero Brexit traitor May!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WlR1JSV45X4
October 14, 2025
There is little in today’s offering from Sir John to disagree with. The UK civil service particularly suffers from over-manning, duplication, grade creep (particularly in the Ministry of Defence) and excessive wokery. But the real problem is servicing the National Debt, now at £2.7 TRILLION or about 105% of GDP.
Warren Buffet, the Oracle of Omaha, spoke about global debt at his last appearance at the Berkshire Hathaway AGM in August. Buffet has built up Berkshire’s cash reserves to $325 billion, an unprecedented amount. Following his mentor Ben Graham’s value oriented investing approach, Buffett has turned Berkshire into an investing powerhouse. He has done this by patently waiting for major market pullbacks, so Berkshire can buy good American businesses at cheap prices, thus getting a margin of safety.
“It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.”
Buffett spoke about excessive levels of global debt, which he thinks will cause the next serious market crash. He has prepared his company to take advantage. The sort of American businesses that Berkshire want to buy do not have poor productivity.
October 14, 2025
Indeed and so much of what they do actually does huge net harm anyway! Cut this put and release these people to get productive rather than destructive jobs!
October 14, 2025
The main things they produce is OTT red tape, over regulation, licence fees, daft employment laws, net zero lunacy and and vast debt and debt interest for future generations!
October 14, 2025
Interesting report out by National Audit Office that claims 98% of external insulation installed under a variety of government improvement schemes over the past few years has been a failure, and is causing some serious problems in many properties due to poor work, lack of knowledge, and unproven products.
29% of internal insulation work has also proven to have had failures under similar schemes.
Afraid this is what happens when Governments try to force the market with endless subsidies, grants, and new regulations.
New companies spring up overnight, undercut those who have been completing work properly for years, in a race to gain as much grant money work whilst it is available, they then often then leave the industry as soon as the grant work stops or slows down, leaving someone else to pick up the bill to rectify all that has gone wrong.
We are already hearing in trade magazines of failures in work completed under heat pumps and solar panel installations.
Why does government get involved in any of these sort of consumer projects ?
October 14, 2025
All in accordance with EU law. Don’t they owe us compensation?
October 14, 2025
The case highlighted today on the lunchtime BBC news showed the cost of rectification to a simple residential family home at over £200,000.
With 98% of installations regarded as failures, this is simply a financial and logistic disaster.
Then we had the Grenfell Tower disaster which actually cost lives, and many other buildings which have simply been blighted, and cannot be sold until rectified.
The holy Grail of Net Zero has many other unintended and expensive consequences when pushed beyond sensible timescales, and the development of reliable proven products and systems.
October 14, 2025
Public sector productivity will not improve unless, or until, the attitude of those within it changes.
It seems to me that, far too many in the public sector do the bare minimum for the maximum reward. I write as someone who worked for the NHS and also worked within the private sector performing the same role.
I returned to the NHS, and found that far too much of my time was spent, not with patients, but on silly, pointless courses telling me how to think and how to behave.
In effect, I was entitled to seven weeks holiday,because one had to work a bank holiday if you were rostered to do so however, if you did work it, you had another holiday banked. If you didn’t, you just had another holiday to have when you wanted it to cover you for the bank holiday you never had to work anyway.. No, it didn’t make sense to me either.
Although it was stopped some time ago now for new starters in the NHS, I had something called Mental Health Officer Status, that was an interesting perk for those of us working within psychiatric hospitals. Don’t look it up, it will make your blood boil.
October 14, 2025
A dossers’ and skivers’ mentality prevails. Many never feel their livelihood will be under threat if they fail to do a good job.
I do not believe numbers can be managed down painlessly though.
October 14, 2025
I agree Sir John, the public sector labour productivity slump is mostly due to it being overstaffed along with inefficient working practices.
It’s classic Socialist idiocy that the government would let the problems persist and try to mask them with tech spending (AI). As you say that is a waste of money if the underlying problems still persist. All other forms of capital deepening (increase in capital per worker) is also a waste of money for the same reasons.
The only part of the equation left is to get the staffing levels and working practices back to pre-covid levels and then they will see productivity return to those levels again right there.
By all means they can add tech enhancements from the ‘Transformation Fund’ at that point to enhance labour productivity but only then.
October 14, 2025
Good morning,
I had a chuckle at the ‘…other than where a good specialist case can be made to a Minister,..’. Given what we’ve seen of the present crop of ministers, I imagine the CS are sending in their children to run rings around them!
As we now hear, there is NO intention to cut government spending, in fact it is increasing, and therefore tax rises are going to be eyewatering, and probably insufficient…again.
Our predictions for economic collapse are on track…..sadly.
October 14, 2025
There is nothing the middle class in this country hates more, than to see someone succeed in their chosen endeavour. We are a nation of knockers, the driver of which is envy. Should someone do well in life, these types feel jealousy, they knock to put the successful person “in their place” so they can take comfort in their own mediocrity and insignificance
I admire folk who can rise above the malevolence and succeed regardless. Many who post here cannot think for themselves, but have their opinions moulded by the right wing press. Which of course have an ulterior political motive
A case in point has been the assertion in the media all summer that Rachel Reeves will hit private pensions. We were assured that the lady will reduce the 25% tax free lump sum that can be withdrawn. As a result hundreds of thousands of folk were fooled and withdrew their 25% in full. Now that the lady has denied any intention to do this, these people now want to put their 25% back into their pensions
HMRC have been forced to advise that due to their rules, any attempt to do so will mean their 25% will be taxed. The moral of this is do not, under any circumstances, believe predictions in the right-wing press of increased taxation – they have an ulterior political motive.
October 14, 2025
So SG you would wait for the budget when the Chancellor says from midnight tonight. ……..
A little late then. Most people who withdraw the 25% probably had it earmarked for something. If not they can invest it. I bet it’s a very small number who would wish to pay it back into their fund.
October 14, 2025
That’s not my experience. I have always been encouraged and supported. I encourage and support in turn.
I love to see our people succeed, deploying their heaven sent ability.
October 14, 2025
SG
On her last Budget she included unused Pension funds for inheritance tax for the 2027 tax year, so she has form on attacking Private Pension Funds.
Not a concern perhaps for those on Gold Plated Defined Pension schemes (typically found in Government systems, NHS, Teachers, Doctors, Civil Service, Politicians, etc ), but a real attack on SIPPS, Self Invested Personal Pensions, where the policy holder does not have the benefit of company contributions, and has to rely upon the Market Rates for Annuities, which means it takes 20-30 years just to get back your own contributions (without any growth)
Thus she has form of this type of legalised theft, as such rules are retrospective on Pension planned savings put to one side for perhaps the last 40 years.
Would you trust her not to go after any other form of savings ?
October 15, 2025
The Chancellor / Treasury have been deliberately “flying various kites” – presumably to see what reaction they get and (following the Winter Fuel debacle) whether they could expect to get away with it relatively unscathed or not.
They are deliberately destabilising the economy in a desperate attempt to milk every last penny they can from ordinary people who have spent their working lives saving, investing, being responsible and putting some money aside for their retirement years ….. so they can squander it on the socialist nonsense which is bankrupting the country.
October 14, 2025
Going to get it all back and more with AI spend. Perhaps Labour (and Tory) party strategists should read up on AI Workslop – rubbish plans and strategies produced by sloppy people using AI to make sloppy work look good. A recent HBR report shows companies have so far found no measurable improvement in productivity from AI.
Just an increase in facile reality-free plans that look good but fall apart. TBH I thought this was what government and consultants did anyway!
October 14, 2025
Dominic. Cummings spot on. Useless PMs, Boris, Sunak, Starmer, useless Ministers unable to develop coherent policy therefore not interested in it, only concentrating on respecting institutions meaning leaving them alone so leaving Whitehall to run itself resulting in no promised changes.(paraphrase long blog)
The result? The disintegration of the old parties with voter disenchantment leading to voter fragmentation and we can see that as the Greens, Lib Dims, pro Palestine/Muslim, hard left and of course Reform, gain traction.
Real talent in government has been missing for many years, PPE/careerists/nodding dogs etc get through a neutered selection process, Tories, only Centrists/fence sitters, Labour through the unions. MPs voting fodder.
None capable/willing to take on vested interest. Unions/Civil Service. Does anyone think Two tier or Kemi have any more substance than mere soundbites and verbal slipperiness?
Is anyone surprised about the mess we are in?
October 14, 2025
Lib Dem’s collapsing. The Greens have admitted to overt support for immigration, I don’t think they will thrive. Even Greta has abandoned the global warming mantra.
We are all looking for sound politicians doing boring but critical things to secure our future. atm they seem to be individuals across the House rather than a single party.
October 14, 2025
And it is becuase Labour treat the People as if they are stupid that they will lose the next election.
Labour also treat us as an inconvenience. They seem to dislike democracy as they seem to always be hiding from us.
October 14, 2025
All of the problems you describe Sir John are not uncommon in the private sector and the solutions are well known. What is different is the senior cadre of Civil Servants who are well embedded in both position and beliefs. They know they are fire-proof and can bide their time, just hunkering down when things get choppy to await a new day (and political “master”). How you shake this rotten tree out, I don’t know but clearly the worst offenders need to be weeded out and the remainder made to realise that it is career threatening not to manage well…
October 14, 2025
Yesterday at the Sharm El-Sheikh Trump-fest a ceasefire agreement was signed, bringing an apparent end to the Gaza war. The IDF has withdrawn to an agreed line and the Palestinians have started to return to their homes. 20 live Israeli hostages have been released and 1700 Palestinians. Unfortunately, no Gaza Palestinians were at the Sharm El-Sheikh meeting, except the discredited Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National Authority. (words left out)
HAMAS have apparently been allowed to recruit a further 7000 fighters. They have refused to disarm and have started battling other armed Palestinian militias, so as to be able to regain Iran control over Gaza
The peace agreement is as full of holes as a colander, which is what you would expect from a 20 point proposal produced by Tony Bliars’s consultancy. Once HAMAS regain control over the Palestinians, expect hostilities to resume with Israel
October 14, 2025
But it was worthwhile
1. the Israeli hostages are free
2. The terrorist organization is battling other terrorist organizations
3. Abbas was in attendance.
Hurrah for Trump.
October 14, 2025
SG
Unfortunately you may be right, let us hope not but time will tell, it is now down to the Palestinians to try and take control of themselves, if they let Hamas take back control, then like you I fear they will all be back to square one.
October 14, 2025
But many of the voters are short sighted.They may not be stupid,but rely on politicians for points of view with self interest first.Most of the younger generation have forgotten how it feels to be in the middle of a war and go blindly into inflammatory action.
October 14, 2025
I have a very good friend who is a ‘Change Manager’ in the NHS. What does any manager manage of not change? She earns six figures. This week she has moved from working 5 days a week to working 4. No reduction in salary. Possibly no reduction in productivity either!
I believe it’s quite possible that if she never turned up for work again, nobody would notice.
October 14, 2025
Is the high expense of bought-in AI essential? The simple existing service available to most folk with a phone or computer can perform powerfully.
It may be much more efficient to have a few sensible managers running the departments. Government tends to squander billions on intentionally ’advanced systems’ that fail wastefully and inefficiently such as the NHS.
The situation already is such that if someone at home needs legal information or wants to check the way tax works, or any of many such matters, they can tap a simple question into ChatGPT and gain an instant solution. What is the purpose of all that government complication and waste to obstruct them and charge them for virtual uselessness?
October 14, 2025
nobody would notice…the change.
Probably true.
October 14, 2025
The AI deal the Civil Service has brought in from Microsoft has already hit a wall. Because Microsoft recognises that AI consumes more electricity( a given ) the Civil Service has voiced concerns that if the use AI it will hamper the strategy of NetZero.
Which part off that is really believable, the energy or the realisation I might lose my job?
October 14, 2025
Minister to Departmental AI “Analyse this report from the Permanent Secretary and list any pertinent facts that have been omitted or given insufficient emphasis given our departmental targets?”
October 14, 2025
You are flogging a dead horse! This government has no clue as to how to raise productivity in the public sector and never will, until the financial crash, which is inevitable now. There is no point in managing a decline in public sector employees because there are far too many of them. First, there should be a significant redundancy of Civil Servants, at least 100,000 of them. In my opinion, you could make 50% of them redundant, and then you will get a rise in productivity. All those working from home should be instructed to come into the office or face termination.
If you don’t make difficult choices while you have the opportunity, they will become harsher when they are forced on you. But this rotten, greedy government will continue to spend wastefully until the money runs out, and it will!
October 15, 2025
It’s not just the over-manned Civil Service.
Since Blair’s nation-destroying devolution was imposed, we’re also funding mega-bureaucracies (proportionate to the population) in Scotland and Wales.
We are massively over-governed: too many politicians; too many bureaucrats; too many taxpayer-funded parasites.
October 14, 2025
Sir John
Isn’t the real answer to all you outline, where is the budget, the plus & minus columns? The thought through conclusions and results. Or is now budgeting just about spending, prolific spending of other peoples money. Ask the Mr & Mrs Joe Public how to budget when you have to earn before spending, then the results are different.
In simple terms you can have everything you want, desire and aspire to, but ‘first’ you have to develop the income stream. Again in simple terms that means having an ‘economy’
To many of our 650 MPs our Legislators they are pushing themselves into the corner of being seen as lazy free-loaders that are now out of a job, they don’t try to get the basics sorted before allowing the country to be ripped apart. Political Ideology, what the ‘Gang Boss’ wants before serving constituents and country. What a shower, the dumb & dumber show
October 14, 2025
With the march towards more and more legislation, isn’t it inevitable that the cost of the state should go up? I don’t disagree with you that the state sector could improve efficiency, but who in government has the wit to implement it?
I maintain the way to reduce the cost of the state is for it to do less. The NHS could be relieved of the responsibility to treat life-style diseases and push that out to private healthcare paid for by insurance/charity/crowd-funding, encourage not discourage private education, relieve local authority of care-home provision responsibility, phase out the state pension in favour of occupational pensions and of course stop throwing money away overseas.
I see government ministers are playing the blame Brexit record. Quelle surprise. Anything but their own lamentable performance.
October 14, 2025
Whether its Labour or conservatives objectives, goals, aims only appear to be achievable “by the end of this Parliament” The impression I get is that we are in such a state that little if anything can be achieved to turn this country round.
October 14, 2025
“accused of passing parliamentary intelligence”! if this intelligence is sent to anyone, country or otherwise, then surly it is a criminal activity regardless if the other party is friend or foe.
This ‘two tier’ stuff of being ‘part pregnant’, acting in bad faith – maybe then only if you don’t support me, involved in criminal activity, but not my supporters or soft targets, is our UK Parliament its 650 MPs dishonouring the very things they are there to defend. How can they be allowed to act as the UK’s Legislators when they immediately become selective in the very things they promise to uphold
October 14, 2025
Trying to ‘persuade’ people to move within the service is a weak means of exerting control over what needs to be done. Fixed-term contracts would enable better management. That way many individuals would prefer and take the opportunity of continuing employment in the new role to leaving.
October 14, 2025
The uncomfortable truth is the Public Sector is Labour and Labour is the Public sector.
The last thing Starmer will do is reduce the money given by tax payers, to the Public Sector. Fundamentally the Private Sector are the tax payers remember,
The Labour view is they will never reduce the sped on their own support group and will never cease finding ways to take that money from those who do not support Labour socialist policies.
This latest Labour administration os a classic reminder of what they value and what they don’t.
Less Chagos island anyone?
October 14, 2025
“I am amazed they are still recruiting and adding to numbers.”
All going to plan, Sir John, to crush the private sector and expand the number of state employees. We’ve had socialism since Blair and the “heir to Blair”, who with his Chancellor and the then SoS for Energy & Climate Change, who is now the Lib Dem leader, used Chinese finance at 9% for Hinkley Point C and thus doubled its cost to the UK taxpayer. Margaret Thatcher said, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” But for socialists this is not a problem but an intended destination and the eventual result can be seen in the history of socialism (national and international) in the last century. We may not even know how much money is being spent or all policies and decisions made because they may be hidden behind super injunctions.
October 14, 2025
Well something is being hidden behind a super injunction…apparently.
October 14, 2025
For many people the best thing that came out of Covid was WFH. Now when individuals try to get to speak to someone in a Government Office, say HMRC, they have to wait in a queue for anything up to an hour. Who is supervising the productivity of these WFH people, or are they just left to their own devices? Government has employed a vast number of additional staff whilst private companies have laid off thousands and gone into liquidation. The recent rise in the unemployment rate shows why productivity has fallen dramatically whilst the public purse has to pay the huge fees for additional Quangos and Civil Servants. Surely this reinforces the need for people at the top to have had some knowledge of Business, this Government has neither experience nor knowledge hence the mess we are in. But never mind, Starmer has millions of air miles to spend when he’s eventually kicked out of No 10.
October 14, 2025
The public sector is so vast that its productivity problem is covered up by the size of the organisation. Instead of looking at the whole of the NHS as one lump issue. Why not instead investigate one area and compare it with procedures in a successful private hospital? Urology, for example.
How many private operations are achieved in an average full day in a private urology department compared to the NHS? What times are the operating theatres used from and to? Why not rent out operating theatres to the private sector for outpatient treatments in the evenings and weekends if they’re not fully used? There is a claim, though I’m unsure if it’s true, that a surgeon can have two operating rooms running in a private hospital, with one cleaned and set up for the next patient, so they don’t have to wait around and waste their time. Is this done in the NHS? Why does it take three months to even see a Urologist with severe and repeated infections? Then longer delays to get a treatment booked.
My husband was behind a man in the bank the other day who told the cashier he was working from home, in shorts, flip flops and t-shirt, he was going for a stroll before going home as it was such a nice day for autumn, at 10 am in the morning, there are good and bad eggs in every organisation, some diligently work at home and get more done without office poltiics, drinks centre chats and distractions from other staff, others take the mickey dropping off their kids and picking them up, looking after them whilst working all in working hours and they don’t whatever they claim make the time up. There were people in the news last week being dismissed for using key tappers to show they were working when they weren’t.
October 14, 2025
When you ask “Is there proper supervision of homeworking?” the answer is there could be, through deployment of existing technology where roamer drones swoop down from the skies and visit those WFH, using sound and vision to differentiate the activities of the scrutinized. Such drones could even provide delivery and collection services where electronic transmission is not possible or desirable.
October 14, 2025
This year the government has expanded its workload through legislation and taxation. The private sector housing has been hit with tenants rights to remain, requirements for energy performance, huge fines for mould which is often caused by misuse of property by tenants, licensing by local authorities with electrical and gas certificates reporting, and inspections. My authority has charged £700 for a property with one tenant and a yearly profit of 4k. After 5 months they have lost the gas certificate sent on payment. And next year HMRC is making tax digital for businesses with small profit but turnover less than the average wage. Instead of one tax return it will be five. Many part timers and investors in housing are giving up. While the tax office and councils are taking on thousands.
And DEZNZ employs 7000 green zealots busily putting up energy costs and closing down factories. Jim Ratcliffe has estimated 10 million production jobs will go in Europe plus knock on jobs making plastic components.
October 14, 2025
Oh dear, another bit of government legislation that’s time consuming and difficult, needing more civil servants to fine us. Agents and self managed rental housing are to carry out money laundering checks.
October 14, 2025
000 criminals were illicitly shipped, into the UK yesterday on the 13th October from France…As at 1pm today the government hasn’t, since 11th, updated its website
October 14, 2025
Released at 1:30pm
89 & 32 criminals were illicitly shipped, into the UK yesterday on the 12th & 13th October from France…
October 14, 2025
Without Cultural Reform, away from the State dependency of PAYE! Undermining the Price Mechanism, with individuals with-holding their Labour, and the Freedom to choose the highest Price, bidding up Wages, how can Competition work within one of the most important Markets at the heart of our Economy?
Without this freedom, why would People bother?
We need to move to a Contract model, on an individual basis, with legally balanced NDA’s and an effective Competition authority! And, a supporting Tax Structure; removing barriers like IR35, for example? The same for both Public and Private sectors, increasing flexibility and movement between sectors, etc,…
A real Libertarian structure, working for everyone!
October 14, 2025
Former House of Lords Speaker Baroness D’Souza faces an eight-week suspension after complaining to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner about “unfair” speeding fines.
A Lords inquiry found the 81-year-old peer broke rules on “personal honour” by writing to Sir Mark Rowley on Lords headed notepaper to query multiple breaches of the 20mph limit adding up to £400 in fines.
Baroness D’Souza said she only wanted to “open a conversation” on London speed limits, but later called the letter to Sir Mark “unwise” and said she regretted sending it.
She speaks for millions of us!!