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July 8, 2006
The British Civil Service and Governance
If you follow this blog you can hardly be impressed by the quality of the British civil service and the officers of British local government. Nobody is surprised when yet another feature of appalling incompetence and gratuitous self servitude is revealed.
We frequently congratulate ourselves on our standards of democracy and berate- or even go to war with- other countries on the basis of their lack of democratic process and the corruption of their civil management.
We should not be so proud. Humility would become those who are in senior and responsible positions. I am old enough to have no fear of observing and recording the stench of British Government. I have come close enough to it to trust my judgment. It stinks from the most junior to the most senior levels.
It is time for upheaval: the honest and needy against the smug, devious and content. Why wait? John Delane would be proud of those who stand up.
Posted by Perkins at July 8, 2006 9:35 PM
Comments
Tim,
The smug,devious and content, were the radicals of yesteryear. One in particular, the Beckett woman, now foreign secretary. I think she is more right wing than most middle englander's. (Not sure where middle england is geographically.)
It is a sad state of affairs to think that the House of Lords, is now a taxpayer's club for failed politicions.
With Neil Kinnock,Peter Mandleson, Stephen Byers,
David Blunkett, to name a few, guaranteed membership to that exclusive club at a future date.
Lord Prescott in his ermine trimmed robes?
The mind boggles.
Posted by: Margo Harker at July 8, 2006 10:54 PM