Hopefully this is a non-contentious political post.
The difference between working for the Government and working in private industry is staggering!
In just twenty-four hours incompetent Greyling has been found to have cost the national purse well over half a billion pounds, and these are only the cases where the responsibility is obvious. I know damned well that if I had cost my old company just the £33 million that has been paid today to Eurotunnel over the Brexit ferry debacle my feet would not have touched the ground when they threw me out of the door.
However, I would probably have gone long before that case or even the ‘smelly’ Seaborne Freight deal. I would not even have been around to screw up the operations of the Railway, which probably cost many £hundreds of millions in direct and consequential costs.
No, all this would have never happened as I would have gone as soon as it was discovered what a pigs-ear I had made of the privatisation of the Probation Service and had to face many weeks of management audit into how it had been possible for me to let contracts that have wasted £0.5 Billion of public funds. That would probably also have opened the door to what I had also mismanaged during my spell at the Dept of Work and Pensions – anyone like to take a bet that he did not have a grubby paw in the design of Universal Credit?
What does it take for May to fire this excuse for a Minister?
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