RE: WFT is damaging UK energy policy..2 Dec 2022 00:50
Ref "balancing the books", the linked piece shows the vice-like grip the present govt has on one aspect of public sector spend. It will probably be tighter still when the opposition claims victory. Wasn't it GKB ("Gordon knows best") who increased public sector numbers from 6m to 7m in his hapless period of office as PM? They were coined "Gordon's Army") thanks to the votes he could rely on for being such a jolly good sport and employing all these people no-one haad either asked for or needed. Kept them off the unemployment records though - along with the millions making up the 50% of school leavers who were suddenly entitled to go to university.
Hey, what a team, eh? B&B. We owe them so much. They owe us a whole lot more. How is the master schemer not a guest of HM instead of the owner of (reportedly) close to £100m of assets?
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/civil-service-staff-numbers
"There are now more civil servants than there were at the time of the spending review in 2010, when the coalition government set out their long-term plans to reduce central administration costs, entailing reductions in staff.
In June 2016, when the EU referendum took place, the civil service had a workforce of 384,260. This was the smallest it had been since World War II, although numbers never quite reached the low of 380,000 expected by the 2012 Civil Service Reform Plan.[5] However, the increase in civil service staff numbers in the 23 quarters after the EU referendum means that the job cuts made between September 2010 and June 2016 have now been entirely reversed".
Talk among yourselves..........
dyor
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