The Civil Service

[newfhouse]

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...axe-90000-civil-service-jobs-to-fund-tax-cuts

Is this just another poorly thought through headline grabber? (Yes, mostly.)
Is it yet another way to replace payroll staff with contractors and shovel cash into the coffers of the usual suspects such as Serco, Crapita et al? (Yes.)
Is it reasonable to expect the remaining staff to do more work at the same time as suffering an effective pay cut? (No.)
Will it improve the timeliness or quality of the service being delivered by departments from DVLA to HMRC to Criminal Justice? (No.)

I should declare an interest - I am a Civil Servant, although I’m not sure if they want rid of me or not.

 

[winjim]

I should declare an interest - I am a Civil Servant, although I’m not sure if they want rid of me or not.

Have you tried being a bit more efficient?

 

[Deleted member 49]

Definately a case of "if you think things are sh1te now....wait until we get rid of more"
I'm guessing all the delays such as DVLA and Passports is because all those lazy feckers are sat at home watching daytime tv ? Might aswell get rid of a few,that'll solve something.

 

[Mugshot]

Could they retrain in cyber?

 

[newfhouse]

Have you tried being a bit more efficient?

With these feet?

 

[Salty seadog]

With these feet?

Are you now or have you ever been a practising homosexual?

 

[BoldonLad]

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...axe-90000-civil-service-jobs-to-fund-tax-cuts

Is this just another poorly thought through headline grabber? (Yes, mostly.)
Is it yet another way to replace payroll staff with contractors and shovel cash into the coffers of the usual suspects such as Serco, Crapita et al? (Yes.)
Is it reasonable to expect the remaining staff to do more work at the same time as suffering an effective pay cut? (No.)
Will it improve the timeliness or quality of the service being delivered by departments from DVLA to HMRC to Criminal Justice? (No.)

I should declare an interest - I am a Civil Servant, although I’m not sure if they want rid of me or not.

DVLA and HMRC and "service" are not compatible, in my experience.

 

[newfhouse]

DVLA and HMRC and "service" are not compatible, in my experience.

Do you think removing one in five of the staff will improve things?

 

[Deleted member 49]

Do you think removing one in five of the staff will improve things

Maybe lay off the cheese 🙄
Johnson.... "Working from home doesn't work
In my experience you make a coffee, go to the fridge, hack off a piece of cheese and walk very slowly back to your computer"

 

[All uphill]

Maybe lay off the cheese 🙄
Johnson.... "Working from home doesn't work
In my experience you make a coffee, go to the fridge, hack off a piece of cheese and walk very slowly back to your computer"

Working from home for him is just party, party, party.

 

[All uphill]

Unless I am mistaken lots of tasks were unnecessary at a national level as they were being done at an EU level ( eg trade deals) or were reduced by having no borders with EU countries.

Who is going to do these jobs now we have repatriated them?

I'd be worried if I thought this bunch were capable of carrying a plan through beyond a soundbite.

 

[Fab Foodie]

It's cloud cuckoo land....

Govt. Screws economy with Brexit in addition, more red tape is required for trade. Minister for Brexit success (who's private business is offshore in the EU for tax aviodance) makes Civil Servants redundant to save money.
From the graun:
Rees-Mogg was touring the broadcast studios to announce a new drive to cut 90,000 civil service jobs – apparently hoping we’d forget that not long ago the government was telling us it needed to hire 50,000 more people to process, you guessed it, Brexit paperwork.

It's really time to take to the streets people....

 

[Hitchington]

Maybe lay off the cheese 🙄
Johnson.... "Working from home doesn't work
In my experience you make a coffee, go to the fridge, hide in it"

Fixed

 

[BoldonLad]

Do you think removing one in five of the staff will improve things?

My problematic dealings with them were several years ago. Nothing to do with “cuts” IMHO.

 

[newfhouse]

My problematic dealings with them were several years ago. Nothing to do with “cuts” IMHO.

This doesn’t seem to be an answer to my question.