There's another epic Labour cock up brewing. This time it's the civil service.
So when Keir Starmer became Prime Minister, he said this: "How hard you work, how much you believe in what you're doing for our country, taught me a huge amount about what public service really means.
"Delivering change won't be easy. Don't need me to tell you that it will require a different way of working. One of openness, of collaboration and transparency in everything we do.
"But from the get-go, I want you to know that you have my confidence, my support and importantly, my respect."
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That was his message to the civil service. We are 91 days into his Government and bang, civil servants vote to go on strike over being forced to work in the office two days a week.
Members of the Office for National Statistics could walk out, or presumably, that just means staying at home and doing nothing like they usually do.
They are reportedly already supposed to spend 60 per cent of their time in the office, that's just not being enforced. These are the people that we need to help keep the wheels of this country turning.
As of March 2024, there were more than 510,000 full-time civil servants. There are now 22,175 more civil servants than we had a year ago. For what? What are we getting? We've got a bloke from the Department of Work and Pensions out campaigning for George Galloway, saying fruity stuff about Palestine.
And we've got taxpayers spending money on woke jolly ups like Black History Month's All About Hair, an insight into afro textured hair hosted by the DVLA, Lesbian Visibility Week at the Bank of England, and we've got an off-beat salary exhibition going on. So fantastic. That's great.
It's estimated that these ridiculous things could cost the taxpayer more than £2.5million a year by 2040. I bet we're not paying them less to sit around at home instead of having to get the train to work every day, are we?
This is the same civil service that David Lammy felt the need to appease by hoisting the bisexual awareness flag outside the Foreign Office. It's the same civil service that nearly handed Gibraltar back to the Spanish without a single shot being fired. Sound familiar?
Given today's news, it's the same civil service that has got Matthew Rycroft as permanent secretary to the Home Office. He apparently got a £30,000 bonus on top of his whopping six-figure salary, despite not being able to tell MPs how many people we'd actually deported. He was also, for a time, the head of diversity and inclusion, which might be why he kept the borders open. But that's obviously just my theory.
And when they are at work, they're leaking stuff. If our civil service was a private business, there'd be mass redundancies, people getting sacked left, right and centre and it will be placed into administration. Our entire public sector is a complete Luddite shambles.
A union has managed to stop the use of £1billion worth of trains because they don't like the windscreen wipers. Honestly, the civil service got what they wanted and they got a Labour government, didn't they?
And they're still kicking up a fuss. It's easy to forget, actually, where this Labour corruption and cronyism row started. It started with the civil service, actually.
Starmer allegedly wants to shove a load of donors into some quite cushy jobs there. It's becoming really hard, I think, to make the case that the civil service isn't stacked full of lazy left-wing layabouts.
