Thursday 15 January 2009

'Labour quangocrat talks sense' shock!

That's the second one today, from the BBC:

Ex-trade minister Lord Digby Jones says he was "amazed" to discover how many civil servants "deserved the sack". He told a committee of MPs he thought the civil service could "frankly... be done with half as many" people.

H/t Hubbers

3 comments:

Dick Puddlecote said...

D'oh! That's the second time you've done me by about 30 minutes.

Snafu said...

But there's a recession and unemployment is already rising...

It does go someway towards explaining why the budget deficit was still rising when employment was at record levels!

Nick von Mises said...

Oh, but did you see the backlash he stirred up among the Righteous and the union fat cats!