The Conservative Party

BeerIsTheBest said:
In my working lifetime I’ve worked many times on consultancy assignment in Central Government. Senior staff are like football managers. Many are inept, or inappropriately appointed (see Peter Principle), the majority are happy to climb the pole knowing that the safety net is strong.
Why like football managers? Well they never fail, they get moved on/ out and reappear in another guise.
Watch this space for the reappearance of Hand onCock in near future for another working example.

The reality is it costs a small fortune to make any of these wankers redundant and they are impossible to sack and virtually immune from the disciplinary action that a normal numpty would face. The value of their pensions and add on benefits is eye watering.

As I age I think more and more that a full on revolution would not necessarily be a bad thing.
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I'm sure there is inefficiency, sometimes huge inefficiency, in areas of the public sector (although, given the slashed budgets, the degree to which many areas are working with virtually nothing makes allegations of gross inefficiency happening everywhere worth questioning at least).

But I, and I imagine most working people, have also seen unbelievably incompetent people and waste in the private sector, often in companies with outrageous budgets.

It is sometimes the price you pay for being a large organisation (not that we shouldn't aim to eliminate it).

The lazy stereotype that the public sector is full of lazy, incompetent wasters, where it could all be solved by 'cutting red tape' and sacking loads of them, whereas laziness and inefficiency is much more eliminated in the private sector, is a bit of a lazy cliche and stereotype in itself. Often (not saying it is here) uttered by people who are not far off - or work with people who are not far off - fitting the stereotype themselves. Either claiming out of proportion wages, lazy or just not the captajns of industry they believe themselves to be.

The easy, nonsense, solve it all by cutting red tape that parties spout before elections is almost always bollocks. Cos they and others are still spouting this as a solution years after arch redtape cutters get into power. Every time.

It's a cheap slogan that people follow blindly. If they were serious about being ultra efficiency, out of proportion investment in innovation would be the priority.
 
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