Public Services

  • PM needs to clear out the nasties to make progress

    It’s long been clear that in many roles centrally there are ‘nasties’ hiding at desks and in corridors, leaving us bereft of services and a sense of where to go next. Like dirty syringes or used contraception, they make it look decayed.

    It’s called the Civil Service. More often than not it’s actually more like a used car forecourt. The staff are woefully inept. They don’t work to efficient timelines. The price of it always sounds too steep. The mileage isn’t there.

    The PM has a job ahead of him in making it fit for purpose. He needs to get rid of phrase-driven imbeciles. The ones obsessed with the look of a newspaper. He has to root out the sovereign snatchers waiting on public money.

    It’s the cringiest of office complexes. It’s too far gone. Brexit was our vote out of messes created by such inept officials and with systems too large for real, conventional use. We need to get out of such a rut for a clean break at real politics.

  • Exclusive: “Tangled Ethics” criminal

    In a stunning exclusive for Conservative News Site, a YouTuber account poster who is also known to be a prominent political activist in the UK is suspected of having aided Sarah Kaplan – the Dover Crossings small boats criminal – is now able to be revealed.

    Details of a YouTube channel

    It’s believed she’s used the name “Sarah” in many contexts to introduce herself, but is also known by “Laura” and “Gabby” in still yet more. Her formal title is “Tangled Ethics” and describes the nature of her behaviour.

    “Sarah” speaking online about her views to a small audience through her own YouTube channel.

    Her intent is to cause confusion and to potential begin the destabilisation of the production of key Identity documents. It happens only in a Political and Judicial context.

    It started by illegally burning passports and turned into a formal criminal career that now encompasses other crimes.

  • Caught: “Miss ID” criminal

    In an exclusive for Conservative News Site, a former Police staff member alleged to antagonise against ID controls in public services has been spotted.

    A suspect alleged of perverting the course of Policing and investigation by interfering with ID controls in public services.

    She’s said to have left her role in Policing to act as a go-to contact for criminal networks.

    She’s culpable for the mis-identification of suspects and prosecution of innocent UK citizens.

  • Prisons are solutions, not a crisis

    The scathing Independent Review of Prison Capacity, published earlier this month, suggested a long run of Conservative failures during 2010 and 2024. The conclusion of fourteen years of Conservative rule is suggested to be a single open prison, or its equivalent.

    “The net effect is that fewer than 500 places have been added to total operational capacity between 2010 and 2024.”

    This is not reflective of the rhetoric and campaigning that Conservatives undertook at a similar time. It’s also not sympathetic to those MP’s in leadership who formerly chose to prioritise it. It’s an indictment of its overall purpose.

    The first challenge is to overcome a manufactured crisis driven by inferior, often youthful interests. The second is to ignore an immature, felt version of wisdom and to follow the needs of the Prison estate. It’s far more important than a village people mindset.

  • A nice new GOV.UK app is here

    The GOV.UK website has come on leaps and bounds since its launch in 2012 as a new service to deliver Government benefits into our hands.

    The old days of phone calls and endless combined forms are nearly behind us. As more gets updated it should be plain sailing from there.

    A set of screenshots of the new GOV.UK app.

    The latest iteration is a smartphone app for the public user – handily titled GOV.UK. It’s available for free download on both major app stores.

    It’s a basic, almost featureless experience that helps users to navigate the website better. It’s said it will improve – or expand – in time to come.

    *A change was made to add a graphic.

  • Westminster Week: Going local

    Tuesday

    An issue like PIP or Universal Credit is going to raise tensions. Imran Hussain MP (Bradford East/Labour) stated his case clearly.

    “It is not this place that sends me to Bradford, but the people of Bradford who send me to this place.”

    As well as his Labour roots, it’s also his conscience, then.

    David Chadwick MP (Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe/Liberal Democrat) also got passionate. He’s on the liberal side of the debate.

    Thursday

    The Health Secretary’s Fit For The Future ten year plan for the NHS hit the nation sideways today. It’s a bold initiative.

    “We will turn our National Health Service into a neighbourhood service.”

    He sticks close to the principles by word. “Every patient will receive a first class service – whatever their background, and whatever they earn”, he says.

  • Labour’s spending splurge (Finance Report)

  • Labour strike out in spending review

    Labour is in power and it’s showing. Its announcements today aim at many of its core issues. It seeks to drive more funding into energy, housing, and infrastructure to support its growing vision of a fairer country.

    Labour campaign graphics – @UKLabour (X)

    The lack of spending controls on previous Labour governments has been a bone of contention for conservatives.

    Many find the Labour party to be happy to spend but reluctant to fund it properly. These major announcements will worry yet more that Labour don’t think twice about the future.

  • Exclusive: CPS formerly employed Emma Richmond

    In an explosive exclusive for Conservative News Site, it can now be revealed Emma Richmond had been knowingly employed by the Crown Prosecution Service in Reading despite her rampant criminal activity.

    She was found working in Eaton House a number of years before a revived investigation into her. Initial inquiries were rebutted, with the Service described as a corrupt public institution at the time for its frequently hostile reaction.

    In some years since, staff of the Service have attempted to cover for their involvement. It’s believed administrative support was given to enable managers for “Southern Housing” to perpetuate their crimes for much longer.

  • Exclusive: Nuclear “Duo”

    In a stunning exclusive for Conservative News Site, a “Duo” of criminals alleged to challenge our Nuclear deterrent have been spotted in Reading, Berkshire.

    Nuclear criminals

    They’re reported to have entered Nuclear sites, and antagonised staff. It’s believed they’ve also sent threatening messages to domestic addresses.

  • A farm tax infowar

    In a post on X, the National Farmers Union has suggested a proposed family farm tax will affect 75%, not 27%, of working farms in the UK.

    @NFUtweets – X

    Meanwhile, the government has communicated their intention to use the tax as a way to target wealthy landowners to fix public services.

    However, it’s a state of affairs caused by cabinet ministers and their public servants, and not by any private landowner.

    @UKLabour – X

    This type of reasoning suggests mismanagement is corrected by creating – or raising – taxes, and not by fixing the rotten processes at the heart of government.

  • Labour’s Labour budget

    It’s a great thing to front a budget, but not if you’re the Conservatives sitting on the opposite bench.

    Yesterday was a bad day for Tories here, there, and everywhere because of the sight of Rachel Reeves MP (Leeds West and Pudsey/Labour).

    @UKLabour – X

    She’s new at the despatch box as Chancellor, but an old hat at explaining difficult truths. She put a lot of fight into it.

    The budget involves a lot of Labour touch points, like breakfast clubs, schools, and pensions. It’s a shopping list with a popular touch.

  • Duncan Smith slams budget

    Iain Duncan Smith MP (Chingford and Woodford Green/Conservatives) has hit out at the Chancellor’s budget, calling it “a budget full of broken promises”.

    In a social media post on X, he pointed to tax rises, National Insurance increases, and increases in the debt burden as to why he opposes the budget.

  • Labour’s stability rule

    In a budget announced today by the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves MP (Leeds West and Pudsey/Labour), a “stability rule” is introduced to reign in public spending and take back control of government finances.

    “The stability rule (which is the government’s fiscal mandate) requires that the current budget must be in surplus in 2029-30, until 2029-30 becomes the third year of the forecast period…Balancing the current budget means that the government’s day-to-day spending is met by revenues and so ensures that, over the medium term, borrowing is only for investment. This means future generations will not be burdened with the costs of public services today.”

    It means in future, if adhered to, any public service will be funded by income recovered by the government rather than by more and more borrowing, which is already beyond our ability to repay.

  • Public services deserve a raise

    If you look at the Tower lifeboat station, along the river Thames, in London, it looks as though public services are in rude health.

    The RNLI have access to public funds – that being, private donations made by individuals who support them through their advertising, and their campaigning, and fundraising.

    It’s not a publicly funded service, in the sense of a national health service, or fire service, and it doesn’t get public funding from the Government.

    There it is, however – a public service for the good of those dying at sea, or stuck in trouble in a river, for example.

    There is reason to hope that privately funded – that is, charitably funded – enterprises can work for the good, for the long term.

    It’s possible, and it’s not only seen with the RNLI.

    There’s ample opportunity to see more privately schemed, resourced, and financed projects working up and down the country.

    There’s a matter to consider of whether it’s best run privately, or run that way and publicly funded. But, it’s a vitally needed service that’s there, at least.