He hasn't a hope in hell's
chance of persuading feather-bedded civil
servants back to their desks any time soon.
Why
would they
, when M P's
have just knocked off for six weeks' summer
holiday? If the Government was serious about
getting the country up to speed again.
Parliament would have scrapped the summer
recess.
It's not as
if MPs have been rushed off their feet
lately, Most of them have been content to
stay at home, working out how to spend the
extra
£10,OOO
t
hey
awarded themselves to cope with the
CORONA CRISIS.
T
HEY
SHOULD BE AT WESTMINSTER SUBJECTING THE
GOVERNMENT'S INCREASINGLY BAFFLING AND
INCONSISTENT COVID RESPONSE TO PROPER
SCRUTINY, BUT WHILE MPS ARE MISSING IN
ACTION, THE UNIONS WOULD SCREAM BLUE MURDER
IF CIVIL SERVANTS WERE ORDERED BACK TO WORK.
G
iven
the way ministers caved in to the teachers,
there's not the remotest possibility that
the Civil Service will be back to normal by
September. The backlog of
P
ASSPORT
APPLICATIONS
DRIVING LICECENCES
BIRTH CERTIFICATES
W
ill
only get worse.
Of course, the Government
could have set up a simple system which
would have allowed people to download the
documents online. They could have issued
six-month or one -year extensions, complete
with readablle bar codes, to be attached to
licences and passports.
It shouldn't be any more
complicated than Amazon's system for
returning unwanted or faulty goods.
passports.
PBut that would hace called
for innovation, flexibility and political
courage. And the unions would never agree to
it, so it ain't gonna happen. My best guess
is that it will be in the middle of next
year before the backlog is cleared. If ever,
the way things are going...
* *
*
...It can't go on. Parliament
should be recalled and the Civil Service
ordered back immediately.
Instead of continuing to
chuck money we haven't got at everything
from the extended furlough scheme to
half-price hamburgers, the Chancellor should
be offering generous tax breaks, whatever it
takes to get factories and offices back up
running again.
Frankly, I fear few
people-including half the Cabinet - have any
idea of the scale of the carnage coming down
the pipe.
NEVER MIND BACKING BRITAIN,
ITS BANKRUPT BRITAIN WE SHOULD BE WORRYING
ABOUT NOW.
[IN A
NATIONAL EMERGENCY A GOVERNMENT CAN DO WHAT
IT WANTS TO KEEP THE PEOPLE SAFE AND KEEP
EVERYONE AT THEIR POSTS!].
T
his
is an extensive article and full details are
available in
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ARTICLE