Interesting.
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Justice for Men & Boys 
Very interesting. Near the end she hits one nail on the head; that generally politicians run by civil servants not the other way round. It takes a very hard working minister (and of course there are lots of these under the ones in the big title roles; Chancellor, Defense, Education etc.) to actually get a grip on what their civil servants are doing. This is linked to the fact that the civil servants are “generalists” who in fact frequently know nothing much about the sectors their department id dealing with, this means they rely heavily on NGOs, Think tanks and Lobby groups to do their thinking for them (and often the drafting). The result is what we see, “Government” appearing not to be in control while actual government pursues an agenda quite different from that of the electorate.
As an aside local Gov. used to be different in that at least the absence of fast tracking and “generalists” the officers running things while politicians were kept busy, they knew what the were doing. The recent growth of councils going bankrupt is the result of fast tracking and “diversity hiring”, for in the past no Director of Finance or City Treasurer would have allowed such poor accounting and sloppy decision making. As has come out in the Covid enquiry the Civil Service has a deficit in people who can deal with numbers and the practical real world rather than how things “appear”.
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