If the state ran a café, it would be closed 12:00 - 14:00 for staff to take their lunch. The Unions would strike, demanding an extra lunch hour hour on elf n safety grounds. Outside those hours, customers would be welcome on payment of a compulsory 25% service charge to pay for ill health early retirement at age 50. Management would be cowering in the bog, checking for a pair of bollocks in the misted mirror while secretly hoping for the same deal.
Meanwhile the regulator gives an “outstanding” rating, allows the top brass a tasty bonus and picks up an OBE for 30 years’ stagnation (excluding 5 years on paid sick leave) in a failing organisation.
Bring it fcukin on.