Here is the truth, Keir Starmer: Whitehal cannot solve urgent problems in the United Kingdom. Look for a quick path Peter Heyman and Morgan Wilde
The British civil service is designed to run an empire, not to serve workers. Its purpose was to rule people as topics, not their service as citizens. It was built for the matter and control. Intelligent people with a kind of correct education who knew that the decisions they made were better. Adams in the center, obedience to the edge. The endless statistical knowledge, a few precious experience on the ground.
It is clear that we see this inheritance Screaming. We expect more than the country more than we did in its imperial past.
In particular, it has three problems. First, it is not good in dealing with complexity. Take the crime of the knife, for example. It is a complex social problem. We cannot know the answers from an office in Whitol.
Second, the state is very central. The country collects 95 % of all tax revenues in the UK, compared to 50 % in Germany. Third, it’s too slow. Parliamentary democracy has been displaced due to the voting, where dozens of organizations or people in the hierarchical sequence can slow down or stop things, but a few of them can accelerate them.
The answer is to create a dynamic state. In our paper, A progressive issue for state reformWe discuss the work that owns this space – the reform of the radical state – and its recovery from the right. Since we believe in the authority of the state to improve the lives of workers, we must be the most enormous reform, especially when it fails to hand over.
This is the great invitation to Care Starmer this fall. Do he continue to follow the government in the usual way, and to rely on insecure departments that are not coordinated to do slowly? Or does it create more important, dynamic and urgent teams to complete the large jobs?
Building 1.5 million homes, moving to clean energy, dealing with violence against women, and dealing with small boats and asylum hotels are all good examples of what we mean. When people used to talk about “Rolls-Royce” civil service, they never had Whitehall, as it is, in mind. There is no single section that has the power, ability, only responsibility, or a sense of urgency to solve these problems. The result is very little format, joint planning, or skilled implementation. In short, difficult intersection problems are not systematically caught.
Thus, problems are solved according to the Whitehall table, instead of the final dates required by public demands. This may have succeeded in the past, but not now. The news is transmitted very quickly, and the audience is very disappointed.
Compare this with the Covid vaccine business squad. I was directly reported to the Prime Minister. This business group had a great talent – the best possible people from the private and private sectors – and the resources and powers they needed. It is important, all the usual bureaucracy has been cleared. It is irrational to create a similar business squad from multidisciplinary experts dedicated to solving the most thorny problems of the government.
When Donald Trump, Javier Millie in Argentina, or other peoples talk about “the drain of the swamp”, they control something real and strong. People are accustomed to having smartphones with a confusing capacity in their hands. At the same time, they often see the state even finds the most difficult tasks that are difficult to achieve. The right answer is to take a saw to the state, because its followers do not really believe that it should achieve the goals we want on the left.
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On the other hand, the left should be the reformists, because any of the reasons we believe in will be achieved without it. This will require the government to change the culture and the operation guide for the country that has many echoes.
The answer is for the state to become more flexible and dynamic, and for societies and regions to make more effort. To inject a pace, we have to prevent cassation points. To improve performance, we have to repair employment and motivate civil service employees to develop experience and ensure that they have a record of achievement and high performance before promoting. The state must borrow from the culture of Netflix performance, where the “adequate performance bonus is a generous loss package”.
Most of all, it needs a mentality of missions, focusing on solving the major problems of workers – with resources, strength and political support to achieve bold goals.
The growth in support of reform in the United Kingdom since the elections has been among the people who lost their confidence in the two main parties to “accomplish the mission.” The repair is waiting in the wings if the work is not transmitted. Reforming the root and branch of the state is the best opportunity for the Labor Party.