Yep. The sad part is there is just as much British talent and skill ‘out there’. But precious little is harnessed to the UK economy.

Woah! Now I know that Moggy can more than look after himself here, and that he and I rarely see eye-to-eye politically, but really.. That’s a bit harsh, and you must be able to see that your post was a touch nonsensical, on reflection?

That makes more sense. Still baffled by what happened back there.. what did I miss?

Sorry for being dim. But don’t mock, you tell me, Sabrejet.

I hope it’s Osborne next.

The corrupt and unsustainable procurement and ‘jobs for the boys’ are what need to go, I agree. A way to do that is to stop the flow of contracts out.. I have seen a steady migration of senior management types leave their public sector posts to do the same job for the same council as a one-man or one-woman private consultancy ‘company’ for double the money.

In one case a social care Director has a second private consultancy job as an advisor to her own department.

In another an outsourcing company – Capita – run (as an outsourced service) the procurement department for a large Metropolitan Council. Whenever a new IT contract is competed for, the contract (as decided on by the Capita Procurement division) is awarded to the Capita IT division.. at a vastly inflated price. I can’t speak for the NHS but I suspect it is a similar picture.

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Annoying when the press make things up, isn’t it?

Next they’ll be accusing him of having sex with a woman who shares his political opinions.

Something peculiar is definitely going on.

Maybe because they can say what they like about him personally now, without fear of the heavy hand of ‘regulation’, because they now know who has the pig photograph? ..just using my imagination again, but it would certainly make a great plot for a political thriller.. House of Cards meets Black Mirror.

On a more mundane level, I think it is to oust Cameron – those that feel they can control the agenda through the popular press are now certain that the Corbyn factor makes the Tories a dead cert for the next election, so there’s no risk of the ‘wrong’ government getting in as result of any personal dissing they might do at this stage – and so they feel they can now safely put the knife in and get someone even more ‘on message’ in place.

It’s all turned ugly for some reason, that much is evident.