Over the last few days and weeks I’ve been watching the rather excellent political sitcom/drama “The Thick of It” courtesy of the pre-woke BBC.
It’s basically an updated version of the classic 70s BBC TV comedy “Yes, Minister” with incompetent ministers in charge of government departments and being constantly wrong-footed by civil servants & spin-doctors with their own political agendas involving government policy (sound familiar?)
Anyway, in one episode a minister is told by one of his media advisors to spend a week working at the coal face! In other words to spend 2 or 3 days actually working in an immigration office to oversee how the system works from within rather than just spending 30 minutes doing a photo-op, answering scripted questions, a few fake smiles and shaking hands with nonentities before retiring back to the safety of their office and forgetting it all in an instant.
I think this would be an excellent idea in reality because newly appointed ministers never really know what the problems are within public sector services other than being told via their very many advisors, experts and other talking heads.
Imagine for a moment the following:-
Suella Braverman spending an entire week at immigration offices in London and the Border Force in Dover.
Ben Wallace spending a week in Ukraine, hopefully on the Front Line
Michael Gove spending a week in some 2 up, 2 down terraced council house in a grotty hellhole in Leicester
Steve Barclay spending a week at an A&E hospital in some major city, perhaps travelling with a paramedics team in an ambulance on a Friday/Saturday night.
Will never happen of course as these ministers will bleat they don’t have the time for such things. But until these pampered cunts actually have a taste of what their departments are all about at the “coalface” they will never be in a position to fix the problems from within. And as a consequence when they subsequently fail at their jobs they will no doubt be shuffled across to another department (Michael Gove!) and the whole farce starts all over again!
Nominated by: Technocunt



