This Government hasn't got anything right at all that I can see, has changed it's mind at very short notice on lots of issues and has also lied to us.

I don't remember anything quite as dramatic in the past, where mistake upon mistake is made. Yet still 42% of people would vote for them again. Nowt so queer as folk.

Sure, I pretty much agree with all of that.

The fact that the Tories are perhaps marginally better at running departments than Labour's idealogs is faint praise from me and I have no issues with the reality that the real source of the incompetence lies within the system......which the Tories have been in charge far more years than Labour.

You are kinder concerning the schools than I am. When the average is a whopping 9 percent higher between predicted and last year's reality serious questions need to be asked.

Teachers aren't there to be generous to students, they are there to be robust and represent the system...but we know that in truth, the system doesn't reward robust teachers and it incentivizes teachers to look for anyway they can to give good grades rather than pure reality.

What this shows is what I was aware of anyway...a cultural generational malaise within the system, which focuses far too much upon empathy and not enough upon meritocracy.

It's all smiles until the day the bridge you're crossing falls down....a bit melodramatic perhaps but not unprecedented in reality.

Edited by Stirlingsays (20 Aug 2020 8.02pm)

The drop out figures will be large after whenever they reach the summer after year 1.

In your first paragraph you should have said Senior Civil Servants.
Have they become worse? I am not sure about that, having been in CS for over 40 years imo they have always been pretty bad, much of their incompetence doesn’t reach the public domain so “Joe Public” are unaware.
One of the changes I believe he wanted to make was to ensure those SCS running departments, actually had experience of the work in that Department, which is no bad thing surely? Previously they moved from Department to Department, often causing havoc but moved around to further their own careers, without a backward glance.
In my Department wholesale changes were made to working practices/shift patterns about 8 years ago. They were advised they were not workable. However they knew better than those who had worked there for years. End result.... chaos for 8 years, now they are trying to find a way to return to the way it used to be.