Quote Originally Posted by DryCleaning View Post
Jacob Rees-Mogg was on R4 this am explaining that the additional civil servants taken on since 2016 to help post Brexit trade negotiations and to manage Covid19 will mean the reduction could be made in those areas and shouldn't affect every day services. Yesterday, on the same program, was another Tory minister (whose name I forget) explaining that levelling up was as big an issue for this government as Covid was. If that is the case then why aren't the Covid19 / Brexit civil servants who now find themselves superfluous to requirement being moved over to the governments flagship project?

All we have had so far is an announcement with no actual detail, so it is hard to comment on this until such time as we see what kind of meat is on the bones.

One thing is for certain, never put it past a Tory government to use any excuse to cut the size of the state.

As for Rees-Mogg, has a man ever wanted you to throw the wireless out the window when listening to it? I'm sure he's a nice person but he comes across as a right smug arsehole.
On this part, it's the nature of the work really. Covid and especially Brexit were pretty admin heavy. Levelling up shouldnt be. In fact, dare I say, it would work better with less central government interference and more devolved to local regions and councils.