Waste and waste again

TGF UKIP

The routine use of consultants at huge expense by ministers and civil servants is one of the great scandals of this government and gives lie once and for all to this complete myth of "our superb and professional civil sevice."

The consultants are briefed so they will know the conclusion required from their report and when ministers go ahead with whatever daft scheme they wanted they can claim it was based on independent, external advice.

Being as ever Dave and Boy George's best friend The Speccie never asks the obvious follow up question on these stories - why on earth do the Tories promise to match Labour's spending when self evidently so much is waste.

Errare humanum est

Ah well, it's only public money!

hill top

What has happened to competence? All we ask of our officials, civil servants and others, is a modest ability to do carry out their duties competently.

Max Kaye

hill top: Why do you insist on such high expectations?

Sacking half of them would not make any notable impression on the 'services' received. Well, a slight improvement, perhaps...

David Parker

Labour politicians never tire of boasting about the extra millions which they have (mis) spent. They are then, of course, forced to pretend that services have improved, whilst it is plain for all to see that mostly they have, in fact, deteriorated.

Labour's present unpopularity is only partly due to their arrogance, incompetence and dishonesty, but also, that people, including their own voters, resent being treated like fools. We all expect politicians to tell lies, that's part of their stock in trade, but when their lies are so blatant that they insult our intelligence, then people begin to get angry.
Such is this Government's obsession with consultancy that, when they are not wasting our money upon, mostly third rate, so called "experts" they are wasting it upon their own laborious, costly and time consuming, consultations with 'the public' (sorry; clients, stakeholders, respondents or whatever other pompous, politically correct title may be deemed appropriate for us in the circumstances). Anyone who has been involved in the multiple recent NHS public consultations will know what mean.

However, despite this frenzied zeal for public consultancy upon the part of our Labour Government, they seem quite determined that we will never be consulted about our views upon the the Lisbon Treaty.

TrevorH

Dream on UKIP

Cameron is a grown up polititian unlike you lot ... he is aware of the caution needed to get elected the need to appeal to a broad church of voters.

And .... "Labour's spending when self evidently so much is waste" there may be a lot of waste in spending ... but that does not mean that there is not still a raft of outstanding need.

Take defence --- we have huge expenditure, but also huge waste and need ... are you saying if we save the waste we should still leave the armed forces without much needed equipment? I do not think so, what we should do is 'spend' the waste on decent armed forces. The same in education the same in health and i think we can accept that some savings can come back in tax cuts.

But what funds real tax cuts is growth, real growth not the bogus immigrant fuelled growth as per labour.

So mr UKIP carry on in your dreamworld confident in the knowledge that if enough peabrains ae daft enough to listen to you we will have another 5 years of gordon Brown - I hope your proud of yourself. Somehow given the vanity of ukipers I suspect you do not give a toss.

Jack R

The are huge economic and social costs involved in Labour's unpopular stealth policy of mass immigration, which the Tories must oppose clearly and strongly.

Only today there is this report at BBC News, under headline, "Detainees 'could be prosecuted'":

" A number of detainees at an immigration detention centre in Oxfordshire could face criminal prosecution following a disturbance, the Home Office said."

Water

Ahh the Chinooks incident, both unviable in terms of the economics of time and money.

JimBob

No doubt Broon already has a task force of 'efficiency consultants' to look into this matter

David Parker

Feeling better now TrevorH?!

Water

£300m with the added estimate of £200m to stabilize the issue is mind blowing. How many of our nations finest could have been better equipped with that same money, ‘tis a wonder.

Nicholas

Hand in hand with the incompetence goes a complete lack of accountability.

The ordinary man in the street is being subjected to the letter of the law as a "bin victim" and threatened with prosecution and a criminal offence by local governments crowing about "zero tolerance". The heinous offence of putting a teabag in the wrong bin - or even having the wrong bin - results in local officials talking pompously about the need to control the situation and take action against offenders.

The government and its gangs waste billions, loses gigabytes of data and shoot dead an innocent man and it's "Sorry, we'll try harder".

Unjust. The regime demands a much higher standard of compliance and diligence from the public than it is prepared to demonstrate itself. Historically such injustice, when relentlessly pursued, almost always results in unrest, revolution and regime change.

Perceptive Perry

Mz. Prudence of Noo-Boring-Liars : the Wickedly Wanton Wastrel of Wealth, Welfare, and Worth.