Bookworm wrote:
Chris Bacon wrote:
Has "lost his department". Good. Will it affect the making of
any more stupid laws, I wonder.

He doesnt make the stupid laws its the stupid bloody Civil Servants
that cant see further than the ends of their arses.

Its plonkers like Prescott that signs them and puts them before
Parliament. If they work Prescott takes the credit.

PMs of both parties have appointed a DPM as a way to neutralize the
opposite wing. The problem with is that it's only a title, not a
function. That is the basic reason why the civil servants at the ODPM
have been forever looking around for make-work projects, to make their
boss look busy.

There is some of that tendency in every government department, but it
has been far worse in the ODPM because it never had any real reason to
exist.

When the ODPM is broken up, the same civil servants will take their
present responsibilities with them. But once they have been moved to a
department that has some real reason to exist, let's hope they will be
given some real work to do as well.


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Ian White