TO SAVE THE TAXPAYER MONEY?
Let's start with the civil service. Unlike Topsy, it has not 'just growed and nobody never made it.' It has been methodically made, like all paper empires are made, on the backs of hard working Indians and ruthlessly ambitious chiefs. Most public services work to the same pattern. Departmental heads are usually paid according to how many staff are employed in their department and that depends on how large the population (at the last census) for which that department is expected to provide services. Lots of figure juggling goes on and, heedless of public disaffection, lots of pie-in-the-sky decisions are reached. Incomprehensible targets are set: targets that may only be met if staff numbers are increased.
More staff means more managers and more managers means more top managers, and more top managers means more fat salaries for those who sit their arses at tables talking twaddle.
That, my friends, is modern administration.
And who do you think will get the chop when the redundancy wreckers are let loose on the civil service? It will be the Indians. It always is. Nothing touches the chiefs except the concern for self of bigger chiefs. My sympathy is - always was - with the Indians. I was a pretty good manager.
That, my friends, is modern administration.
And who do you think will get the chop when the redundancy wreckers are let loose on the civil service? It will be the Indians. It always is. Nothing touches the chiefs except the concern for self of bigger chiefs. My sympathy is - always was - with the Indians. I was a pretty good manager.
SO TO PARLIAMENT.
I regard with healthy cynicism the picture above. It shows the House of Commons packed to its customary capacity when MPs salaries or some threat to their status is not on the agenda.
But surely, if the country can be run with just that many members, we don't actually need the rest of them. You will know who you would dispense with.
Me? I'd get shot of the entire government for a start.
Ah well.
HERE AT HOME.
GRANDDAUGHTER JESS AND HER BOYFRIEND JAMES:
I regard with healthy cynicism the picture above. It shows the House of Commons packed to its customary capacity when MPs salaries or some threat to their status is not on the agenda.
But surely, if the country can be run with just that many members, we don't actually need the rest of them. You will know who you would dispense with.
Me? I'd get shot of the entire government for a start.
Ah well.
HERE AT HOME.
Walked the Wight on Sunday 8th May 2022. The full twenty six and a half mile walk in aid of the charity Mountbatten Isle of Wight starts at Bembridge and ends at The Needles. People of any age can take part and there is a choice of five different distances (from 4 through to the lot) that can be chosen.. Our pair did the lot. Took them all day and left them knackered but content. Don't yet know how much they made for the charity, but will doubtless find out when we get around to handing over our contribution. Jess's Mum, our Roz, did the walk every year too. All the women in this family are great. And well done, James, for stepping up to the mark. I was never that good.
Be back before the month ends - if only just.
No comments:
Post a Comment