Jobs for the boys!

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Wed Aug 01, 2012 2:03 pm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012 ... ncis-maude

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Maude said: "While we are rightly proud of our civil service, we shouldn't hubristically assume that there's nothing we can learn from other successful governments, whether, like Australia and New Zealand where they have political arrangements which are broadly similar to ours, or like Singapore or the United States where they are more distinct."

Where will these new "civil servants" come from, I wonder? Not Policy Exchange, surely?

So we'll now be paying them for advice they provide for free.

No money left!

Quote:

Ministers have been repeatedly frustrated in Britain that civil servants can avoid personal responsibility for errors by arguing that ministers are accountable to parliament for everything that happens in their department.

Don't sign stuff off then.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Wed Aug 01, 2012 2:08 pm

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

Where will these new "civil servants" come from, I wonder? Not Policy Exchange, surely?
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Tax-dodgers' Alliance?

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Wed Aug 01, 2012 2:27 pm

Talk about regulatory capture.

mojojojo · **Joined:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:33 pm **Posts:** 4264

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

Where will these new "civil servants" come from, I wonder? Not Policy Exchange, surely?
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Tax-dodgers' Alliance?

It'll save the Tory party a few quid - they can stop funding them and let those that have had their benefits stopped do it instead.

Andy McDandy · **Posted:** Wed Aug 01, 2012 3:44 pm

Yeah, 'cos after all there's enough Mailtards who know how to fix all the problems in 5 seconds flat...

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Thu Aug 02, 2012 10:12 pm

This bloke is already becoming a bete noire for me- Chris Skidmore MP, elected by the dimwits of Kingswood, South Glos.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/94443 ... e-NHS.html

Privatisation is brilliant!

Not in his article

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He received a payment of £3,500 for 4 hours work - giving speeches to STAC Consultancy which specialises in the launch of pharmaceutical products, strategic branding and medical education. Chris Skidmore's family also owns a company called Skidmore Medical, which appears to be solely selling a physiologic Vascular testing equipment. The company made a donation to him of £7,500 in June 2010.

Note how he selectively quotes Polly Toynbee too. She was talking about outsourcing small bits where there's a problem, or which are too small for a hospital to develop itself except at great expense. She's not supporting privatising whole hospitals.

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