| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 08:22 - Mar 1 with 2549 views | Steve_M |
Chris Grayling's impeccable political judgement in action. Whoever would have thought that this man would spend money on a ferry company with no ferries nor any idea where to charter them from.
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| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 08:24 - Mar 1 with 2541 views | BlueBadger |
| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 08:22 - Mar 1 by Steve_M |
Chris Grayling's impeccable political judgement in action. Whoever would have thought that this man would spend money on a ferry company with no ferries nor any idea where to charter them from.
How is he still in a government job? |
Like Rhyming-Slang, I can only assume that he someone manages to say the right things to the right people. Or, terrifying enough, the talent supply in parliament is even lower than I thought. |  |
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| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 08:24 - Mar 1 with 2543 views | StokieBlue |
Whilst I know the general point you are making that article places all the blame squarely at the public sector, specifically the MoJ so it seems a rather unfair post title.
In this instance the private sector would seem to not be the issue at all.
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| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 08:25 - Mar 1 with 2534 views | Ewan_Oozami |
And this lot are expected to deliver Brexit? |  |
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| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 08:26 - Mar 1 with 2522 views | Ewan_Oozami |
| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 08:24 - Mar 1 by BlueBadger |
Like Rhyming-Slang, I can only assume that he someone manages to say the right things to the right people. Or, terrifying enough, the talent supply in parliament is even lower than I thought. |
The latter, I fear | |
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| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 08:29 - Mar 1 with 2505 views | BlueBadger |
The word you're looking for is 'employed', given that she's not been working there for some time and cottoned on pretty quickly to the fact there was concerns. | |
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| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 08:31 - Mar 1 with 2501 views | BlueBadger |
| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 08:25 - Mar 1 by Ewan_Oozami |
And this lot are expected to deliver Brexit? |
That's an idea isn't it? We could privatise Brexit - all those that want it can pay a small sub to be able to spend more on food and travel, remove their employment rights, gain access to specially created areas of beaches that are right on top of sewage outflows and have blue passports. | |
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| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 08:33 - Mar 1 with 2486 views | BlueBadger |
| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 08:24 - Mar 1 by StokieBlue |
Whilst I know the general point you are making that article places all the blame squarely at the public sector, specifically the MoJ so it seems a rather unfair post title.
In this instance the private sector would seem to not be the issue at all.
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I think they've got to take a fair amount of blame for being patently ill-equipped to deliver services as well as the people who thought that employing people unequipped to deliver services was a good idea. | |
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| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 08:42 - Mar 1 with 2472 views | Basuco |
"The government said it took the findings "very seriously". "
But I bet nothing is done about it. We can now see how this government has increased NHS spending, pay more for the same or less service. |  | | |
| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 08:46 - Mar 1 with 2467 views | Basuco |
Is the N&N still in special measures? They were/are really struggling with the PFI repayments for the new buildings. | | | |
| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 08:55 - Mar 1 with 2446 views | Basuco |
| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 08:33 - Mar 1 by BlueBadger |
I think they've got to take a fair amount of blame for being patently ill-equipped to deliver services as well as the people who thought that employing people unequipped to deliver services was a good idea. |
While I completely agree with your point in the OP, as a contractor you only do what you are paid to do and nothing else, however stupid that may be. When my old job was put out to contract the first thing my boss had to do was go on a training course to learn how to "maximise income", as a contractor your first thought is "is this work covered by the contract?" If not it goes down as an extra. Cheap contract with loads of very expensive extras is how many companies get caught all the time and usually end up pulling services back in house and save a massive amount of money. | | | |
| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 08:59 - Mar 1 with 2440 views | StokieBlue |
| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 08:33 - Mar 1 by BlueBadger |
I think they've got to take a fair amount of blame for being patently ill-equipped to deliver services as well as the people who thought that employing people unequipped to deliver services was a good idea. |
I know this is a bugbear of yours and I usually agree but in this instance I don't see how it's their fault. The MoJ provided incorrect specifications for what they wanted according to the article.
The blame would seem to lay with the inefficient (or incompetent) public sector.
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| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 08:59 - Mar 1 with 2437 views | Withnail |
| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 08:29 - Mar 1 by BlueBadger |
The word you're looking for is 'employed', given that she's not been working there for some time and cottoned on pretty quickly to the fact there was concerns. |
Did they not 'cotton' on during the interview?? Unbelievable incompetence. |  | | |
| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 09:03 - Mar 1 with 2433 views | factual_blue |
| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 08:42 - Mar 1 by Basuco |
"The government said it took the findings "very seriously". "
But I bet nothing is done about it. We can now see how this government has increased NHS spending, pay more for the same or less service. |
'Very seriously' is Whitehall speak for 'balls'. |  |
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| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 09:05 - Mar 1 with 2431 views | Pinewoodblue |
| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 08:24 - Mar 1 by StokieBlue |
Whilst I know the general point you are making that article places all the blame squarely at the public sector, specifically the MoJ so it seems a rather unfair post title.
In this instance the private sector would seem to not be the issue at all.
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Think you are miss reading the article. Private companies entered into contracts expecting to make £250m profit but end up being bailed out by the tax payer by almost £300m yet expect to be compensated for contracts bring ended early.
Neither the public, nor private, sector comes out of this well. A situation that has been repeated many times in the last ten years. Olympics security for example and More recently Carillion / Capita etc |  |
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| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 09:15 - Mar 1 with 2410 views | Pinewoodblue |
| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 08:59 - Mar 1 by Withnail |
Did they not 'cotton' on during the interview?? Unbelievable incompetence. |
Wonder if they held an internal enquiry into the recruitment process. | |
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| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 09:16 - Mar 1 with 2408 views | Bluefish |
From what I am reading the service was terrible so they went to the private sector to try and fix it. The brief however was terrible so by carrying out the brief it wasn't fixed. Does this article not scream of public sector incompetence? |  |
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| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 09:18 - Mar 1 with 2400 views | Swansea_Blue |
| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 08:24 - Mar 1 by StokieBlue |
Whilst I know the general point you are making that article places all the blame squarely at the public sector, specifically the MoJ so it seems a rather unfair post title.
In this instance the private sector would seem to not be the issue at all.
SB |
Actually, ignore that [Post edited 1 Mar 2019 9:47]
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| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 09:20 - Mar 1 with 2394 views | BlueBadger |
| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 09:16 - Mar 1 by Bluefish |
From what I am reading the service was terrible so they went to the private sector to try and fix it. The brief however was terrible so by carrying out the brief it wasn't fixed. Does this article not scream of public sector incompetence? |
Yes. The incompetent view of certain public sector employees that 'private=better'. | |
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| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 09:28 - Mar 1 with 2380 views | Swansea_Blue |
| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 09:20 - Mar 1 by BlueBadger |
Yes. The incompetent view of certain public sector employees that 'private=better'. |
Which in fairness is the case when taking a Friday poo | |
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| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 10:04 - Mar 1 with 2343 views | factual_blue |
Press gangs at Wetherspoons is the way forward.
The clientele all Love Their Country, and they'd work fine as cannon fodder. And the gene pool would get stronger.
It's how things worked in the Empire.
(With the judicious introduction of Hanoverian mercenaries to do the hard yards). [Post edited 1 Mar 2019 10:10]
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| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 10:17 - Mar 1 with 2325 views | jonathanton |
| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 09:16 - Mar 1 by Bluefish |
From what I am reading the service was terrible so they went to the private sector to try and fix it. The brief however was terrible so by carrying out the brief it wasn't fixed. Does this article not scream of public sector incompetence? |
I'll a Probation Officer and that service was performing as required before privatisation. The decision to privatise was ideological which is fine as long as it works. It's been very very bad, unplanned, poorly constructed. The fault is spread across the ministry for deciding to privatise with no testing and the private companies who have ruthlessly sought to make money (absolutely fair enough) at the expense of service provided, and also been let down by the government's lack of proper planning which made their own planning impossible. |  | | |
| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 10:56 - Mar 1 with 2287 views | Swansea_Blue |
| The Efficient Private Sector is Delivering Value For Money part 9358514348057019 on 10:17 - Mar 1 by jonathanton |
I'll a Probation Officer and that service was performing as required before privatisation. The decision to privatise was ideological which is fine as long as it works. It's been very very bad, unplanned, poorly constructed. The fault is spread across the ministry for deciding to privatise with no testing and the private companies who have ruthlessly sought to make money (absolutely fair enough) at the expense of service provided, and also been let down by the government's lack of proper planning which made their own planning impossible. |
My aunt works in the probation service - she says pretty much the same. At the time when Grayling was shaking all this up she was saying it was a disaster waiting to happen. Easily foreseen and easily avoided by the sounds of it. | |
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