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Starmer told the civil service to 'deliver' what he wanted

Yet he has sacked the civil servant who 'delivered' the appointment of Lord Mandelson

New by me, at Prospect

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/the-weekly-constitutional/73105/starmer-told-the-civil-service-to-delivernot-blockwhat-he-wanted

Apr 23 at 11:04amWeb
Show threadMarkus GerstelApr 23

@davidallengreen The sacking is of course justified because Starmer got what he wanted at the time instead of what he wanted retrospectively. Surely it's not too much to ask of a capable senior civil servant to deliver now the right thing which in the future will be needed to have been done in the past.

Instead, the blob insists on outdated concepts such as "causality" and "the arrow of time", which certainly are neither expedient nor politically convenient.

Show threadSteve FreemanApr 23
@davidallengreen mumble, mumble, “Chesterton’s Fence” mumble, mumble
Show threadSteve FreemanApr 23
@davidallengreen that said, it has been the case that the cost of compliance traditionally meant that only the usual suspects could afford to bid for work. The GDS tried to even that out.
Show threadFrancis Mangion (M)Apr 24
#ProspectMagazine #uk #KeirStarmer
Show threadFrancis Mangion (M)Apr 24
Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Thinking
https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/ #gk_chesterton #Look_before_you_leap
Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Thinking

A core component of making great decisions is understanding previous decisions. If we don’t understand how we got “here,” we run the risk of making things much worse.

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Show threadFrancis Mangion (M)Apr 24
Mending Wall - Robert Frost | The Poetry Foundation
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44266/mending-wall
Mending Wall

Something there is that does n’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even…

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