The UK is also pretty much alone in the practice of treating ministers like middle management: one day you’re Health Secretary, the next you’re Defense Secretary, then you’re Chancellor. This only works when ministers follow advice from their civil servants. When a minister who has no expertise or even basic understanding of their department starts taking decisions based on what a think tank says.. well it ends in mini-budgets that explode the economy.. “but they were so convincing!” #ukPolitics


