The not fit for purpose Home Office staff ficking up stupid Conservative policies and PR stunts.

Am becomingly increasing annoyed with the " haha, you couldn't make it up " political punditry.

The taxpayers being absolutely screwed by a useless wastrel government, and likely same by next government.

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

Blimey, we agree

The Home Office has been run dreadfully for so many years. It may well be the case that recruitment has been poor but I don’t see why given where it’s based. To me it is the short termism that makes it doubly awful. And that the recent Governments ran out of credible candidates to run it.

Patel, Braverman, Shapps all totally out of their depths and constantly bullied into stupid, resource hungry initiatives that deflect from the business at hand. Plus actually discouraged from dealing with asylum seeker backlogs until it was too late.

So you agree next Govt will likely be just as useless?

That's good to know, people of different view points can have the same opinion on the state of the country's governance and provision of services

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

This really is a nonsense.

Labour have flipped so much that they must have a concussion.
They will literally contradict themselves on the same day to appeal to different voters.

I'm sure the left wing civil service will suddenly find another gear when they get in. The only problem is that the Labour cabinet is the worst collection of insufferable halfwits that I have ever seen.

The Tories will only regain popularity by being in opposition. It just takes a taste of socialism for the floaters in every generation to try and avoid it for their lifetime.

Home Office, NHS, any corporate body really. Infected from top to bottom by a culture of managerialism underpinned by an obsession with credentials.

Entire swathes of management whose sole interest is in maintaining their own status. The organisations become effectively two tier organisations.

The first tier is operational. The people who actually do the job. The ones who repair, create, provide a service, etc the widget involved. And probably above them, maybe a couple of levels of direct supervisory over-sight.

But then...where it gets interesting. Restricted primarly to a Graduate class, primarily middle class, primarily people who have never actually done the job. Operating on a completely different level and effectively sucking the lifeblood out of anything innovative because they are risk-averse. Only interested in stats, because that is the only criteria they themselves are judged upon, and willing to manipulate those rather than having any kind of interest in outcomes.

Operating in a kind of bureaucratic freemasonry. Slavishly following whatever the current political zeitgeist of the day because of an almost inherent anxiety about standing out.

Wiith promotion primarily decided not on actual results but rather a perception of them alongside utter and complete adherence to what is the flavour of the month. With the later actually more important.

Not necessarily an uncommon phenomenon but a definite sign of an end-stage civilization.

Saw a claim recently that on the eve of the fall of Constantinople, the people tasked with heading up its defence were debating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. As to the veracity of that, would not like to say but as a metaphor, I think it has some value with what we are seeing in the West now.

Oddly enough a Starmer led Government might actually lead to some efficiencies, in the short term at least, because Starmer represents this kind of managerial caste, along with the current Labour Party itself, so institutions such as the Home Office might actually be more willing to do as bid but the rot remains the same.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

Matov. What an insightful post that you've made. Putting far more eloquently and precisely what I would have made into pages of subdivisions.
No-one will rock the boat, because they are scared of potential change.

I disengage, I turn the page.