satnav wrote: ↑Sun Oct 16, 2022 2:56 pm
Honest, straight talking Jeremy Hunt has spent much of the last 24 hours talking about the need for more efficiency savings in government departments. Why can't he just call a spade a spade and admit that the government will be making lots of redundancies and decimating services?
That would contradict the basis of the Tories biggest lie. (It's a heavily contested title).
The idea that if you pay less / provide less funding for a service it will "become more efficient".
"Become more efficient" is a direct lift from Truss' last press conference.
My own experience with public services in higher education and defence were of reduced funding leading to foolish short term economies that made everything run far less efficiently.
A classic example was transferring hardware maintenance contracts to cheaper providers.
Then discovering that they didn't have engineers with the necessary security clearance to visit the site and perform maintenance.