The Anything Thread that is Never off subject.

[Tony1951]

I listed the managerial accomplishments he has earlier in the thread. They are far greater and more substantial than any i have had to deal with, and i dare say the same is true of your career.

Did you run and win a campaign for a national referendum which resulted in all the pundits choking with shock?

Did you run and win a campaign for a candidate in a general election that won by eighty seats?

Did you perhaps persuade a mop headed scarecrow to let Kate Bingham run the vaccine programme rather than letting Hancock and the Dept Health (civil service);sabotage it?

This is the planet i am on right now. Which one are you on?

Right now image.

 

[Woosh]

Did you run and win a campaign for a national referendum which resulted in all the pundits choking with shock?

Did you run and win a campaign for a candidate in a general election that won by eighty seats?

Did you perhaps persuade a mop headed scarecrow to let Kate Bingham run the vaccine programme rather than letting Hancock and the Dept Health (civil service);sabotage it?

so he's got a good track record on political wins in the 2016-2021 era.
His notable claim to fame was the 3 word slogan 'take back control'.
That proves is he's a good political hack.
That does not qualify him for the role of reforming the Civil Service or government machine though. He may have impressed a few but not me.
The kind of things he said 'No one is fired for failure' proved that he should have studied PPE instead of ancient and modern history when he was at Oxford. That would have taught him at least how government and the civil service work.

 

[Tony1951]

The civil service is notorious - absolutely NOTORIOUS for moving abject failures sideways and even promoting them.

The key takeaway from the video if you had really watched it and taken it in is not that Cummings wants to run everything himself, but that from deep experience of working with the civil service in the cabinet office at a time of grave national crisis, he wants to see change. The following are some of his issues:

Accountability for failure and promotion due to proven track record of success rather than time serving.

A MUCH wider pool of candidates need to be considered - especially people who have experience of STEM subjects such as data management.

It isn't just him saying some of these things. All Party Select Committees have repeatedly brought up similar complaints about the civil service. They have repeatedly complained that civil servants provide incomplete or overly defensive evidence, avoiding responsibility for mistakes.

I refer you back to the earlier post and pasting from AI sources:

https://chatgpt.com/share/689c6341-fc7c-8001-967d-6d7439892f6f

In the UK nothing changes when government's fall and new parties take over. The country fails more and more and has done over several decades. Infra structure projects taking much longer than our near neighbour countries and massive waste in procurement are just some of the issues which are down to them.

Remember - the civil service is arm of government which actions and over sees policy implementation.

 

[Woosh]

The civil service is notorious - absolutely NOTORIOUS for moving abject failures sideways and even promoting them.

The key takeaway from the video if you had really watched it and taken it in is not that Cummings wants to run everything himself, but that from deep experience of working with the civil service in the cabinet office at a time of grave national crisis, he wants to see change. The following are some of his issues:

Accountability for failure and promotion due to proven track record of success rather than time serving.

A MUCH wider pool of candidates need to be considered - especially people who have experience of STEM subjects such as data management.

It isn't just him saying some of these things. All Party Select Committees have repeatedly brought up similar complaints about the civil service. They have repeatedly complained that civil servants provide incomplete or overly defensive evidence, avoiding responsibility for mistakes.

I refer you back to the earlier post and pasting from AI sources:

https://chatgpt.com/share/689c6341-fc7c-8001-967d-6d7439892f6f

This is nothing changes and the country fails more and more and has done over several decades. Infra structure projects taking much longer than our near neighbour countries and massive waste in procurement are just some of the issues which are down to them.

Remember - the civil service is arm of government which actions and over sees policy implementation.

So those failures* have absolutelynothing to do with half baked project objectives and milestones, changes in political leaderships, public finance and regulatory obstacles then?

* such as Osborne's Northern Powerhouse, HS2, Priti Patel's Rwanda scheme etc