Comment by skippyboxedhero
1 day ago
Public-sector employment in the UK is at record highs. Despite apparently cutting inputs, productivity has collapsed to the same level as 1997 in the public sector. It is wildly overstaffed/overfunded by any estimation (and to be clear, there have been no cuts...the cuts in the early 2010s were not particularly significant, around 2-3% of GDP, public spending is as high as it has ever been in the UK, it was significantly lower under Blair...the only time it has reached this level is WW2 and 1975, the financial year the UK govt was bankrupted).
DVLA isn't complex. We live in a world of regulation, rules, and standards. Almost every large business does stuff like this at a global scale. It isn't complex, it just has to be complex so the budget is filled (and Fujitsu can get their contract).
This is what we call cherry-picking stats. You pick a single stat but ignore everything else. Your comment seems to imply that the UK government has been lying about austerity for 10 years. While I don't trust the tory party and think they're corrupt with their deals-for-buddies approach, I don't think they outright lie for 10 years.
The policing budget is so bare-bones that the police have literally admitted they will not attend all 999 calls. To make that clear, they have admitted if you call them in an emergency they may not show up. NHS waiting times are sky-high. The number of NHS hospitals and beds are rock bottom. We can dig and dig into various public sectors and see them being terrible because of austerity. Which Labour is kinda being forced to continue due to the effects of covid on the finincals of the UK (and Brexit)
Public sector employment is at a high because we had to hire thousands of staff due to Brexit… probably the most stupid productivity destroying own goal a country has ever committed (so far)