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Ifc you always harp on how great America is, have a read of this "Nullify Government tyranny:In 2020,harness the power your discontent" read it because the whole fabic of living there is very quickly as planned turning into a nightmare.

thanks terry I’ll read that later

I know the feeling all too well. Everybody is even jealouser of Germany.

I don’t know edy , terrible things seem to happen in other countries , but not in England
Not for hundreds of years . How do we explain that ? It must be the peope I hope it doesn’t change too much .

You got me, I wish we had a couple of million extra benefit seekers from dubious countries to look after.

many very good things about Germany it’s true , the autobahns are the best roads in the world and Germans are very good drivers
I think you can travel at 150 mph , although my Toyota Yaris can’t do that

Yes we are absolutely Gutted ,Not to have a Million or so of Merkles Marauders on Board ,Its new years eve  , I wonder if the they will be Marauding again this evening , Don't think many women will be venturing out in the Cologne area

Civil service told it is 'woefully unprepared' for Cummings' reforms

Staff could face regular exams under ‘seismic’ changes planned by PM and adviser, says manifesto author


Civil servants have been warned that they are “woefully unprepared” for the sweeping reforms of Whitehall being prepared by the prime minister and his special adviser, Dominic Cummings.

Officials could be made to take regular exams to prove that they are up to their Whitehall jobs under “seismic” changes being planned by No 10, Rachel Wolf, who helped draw up Boris Johnson’s election-winning manifesto, has said.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Wolf said reported plans for merging, creating or abolishing departments were just a “tiny fraction” of the changes set to be implemented.

Wolf said the changes, set to begin in the spring, after the UK’s due date for leaving the EU, would end the “merry-go-round” of officials changing jobs every 18 months. But she dismissed suggestions that the civil service would be “politicised” under the reforms that Cummings is likely to have a big influence over.

Wolf said Johnson wanted to run “the most dynamic state in the world”. She added that one of the biggest changes was likely to be in the area of Whitehall recruitment and training.

Wolf stated that anyone staying in the same job for longer than 18 months is currently seen to have “stalled” in a culture that ensures “everyone rises to their position of incompetence”. She also predicts that civil servants will be “reoriented to the public” rather than “stakeholders”.

Many officials “cannot believe the prime minister and Dominic Cummings mean business”, she writes, and that “as a result, they seem woefully unprepared for what is coming”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/02/cummings-likely-to-have-big-influence-over-whitehall-reforms