Latest quarterly civil service headcount figures reveal that there are now 515,000 pen-pushers – as high as it was under arch blob-lover Tony Blair in 2006. And 2,000 more since Labour came into power…
The Ministry of Justice added another 595 staff to its ranks, the Department for Work and Pensions rose by 355, and the Treasury brought in 315 more mandarins. William Yarwood at the TaxPayers’ Alliance said:
“Taxpayers are sick to the back teeth of coughing up for evermore useless civil servants. Despite there being more civil servants than since the Blair era, the British state is more dysfunctional and decrepit than ever before. The government needs to take an axe to our sprawling civil service and scrap all functions and jobs that aren’t necessary.”
Despite Starmer’s calls to reform the civil service, briefings that up to 10,000 jobs across the civil service could face the chop and the now infamous “tepid bath of decline” comments, the now no longer “world-leading” civil service continues to balloon for the eighth year in a row. As Guido revealed no fewer than 100 are employed by the EU surrender Unit…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”