devilskitchen

Having worked in the public sector, I can confirm it operates as a mafia. A giant holding pen for mediocre people with mediocre degrees to wear suits and create work for each other so they can steal an ever larger chunk of taxpayers' hard-earned money. Of course they spent £180 million deciding not to build a road tunnel. When I worked in public sector management consultancy, we were tasked with finding efficiencies in the IT department of a large government agency. One man we spoke to had two laptops on his desk. He said one was for forex trading and the other one was to monitor his chicken farm in Ghana. There was no shame as he told us this, no realisation that he was actually being employed to do a job that didn't involve forex trading or managing a chicken farm in Ghana. We were struck by the number of people sitting around doing nothing, even for a public sector organisation. Then we discovered that the man running the IT department also owned an IT recruitment consultancy. Every man he hired into this IT department from his recruitment consultancy put money in his own pocket. So there was a huge incentive for him to just hire as many men as possible to get as rich as possible. Never mind being prosecuted over this - I don't think he actually lost his job. And there's an incentive in the rest of the public sector to hire as many people as possible because the more people you manage, the more important you are, the bigger budget you get, and the greater your salary. (On the plus side, as a management consultant, finding efficiencies in the public sector is a piece of piss.) When you hear about public sector investment, this is money taken from the real economy and given to people to produce very little. This isn't "investment" any more than a bank "invests" in bank robbers. It's not done to make a profit. It holds the real economy back, not just in terms of the tax burden, but also in the huge numbers of workers tied up in this false, public sector Potemkin economy. Those workers should be in the real economy producing something of value. Britain could be a paradise. We could all be rich. There's no need for mass immigration. The workers we need are already here doing nothing, on benefits or in the public sector. We just need to fire everyone in the public sector and scrap all benefits.

This is a Boeing 747 at cruise speed… Filmed from another plane Your brain refuses to believe how fast this actually is.

One of London’s bridges has been closed to traffic for 7 years due to structural faults, and a public body responsible for maintaining bridges has donated nearly a billion over 30 years to charities tackling “inequality and injustice”.

Imagine this Mr Neil: Technology has moved on, with wind+solar power having overtaken gas+coal each year. At this rate, we'll soon only use gas on low wind days. This is what your "intermittent" energy looked like last week: Solar (yellow) is down but green (wind) is up. As happens every winter. Even in winter, gas (orange) is a fraction of demand. A fraction which will fall as we add more renewables as well as use our hydro and pumped storage - and now 10GW of batteries to mop up the surplus wind and solar.

HOW have I not seen this before?! This is wonderful and absolutely spot on 😂