For John, BLUF: When Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer looks to be adopting a reform of the Bureaucracy, maybe DOGE isn't so off base. Nothing to see here; just move along.
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KEY MOMENTS
From The aatelegraph, 13 March 2025 3:05pm.
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Starmer: We’ve created ‘watchdog state’ out of step with the public Sir Keir Starmer said: “I’m going to send teams into every government department with a clear mission from me to make the state more innovative and more efficient. But we also need to go further and faster on regulation.”It sounds to me like British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has broken the code and realizes that the Bureaucracy has become its own self-perpetuating organism. It reminds me, in a way, of the 1983 film, War Games.The Prime Minister insisted it was “not about questioning the dedication or the effort of civil servants” but rather “the system we’ve got in place”.
“Over a number of years politicians have chosen to hide behind vast arrays of quangos, arms-length bodies, regulators, you name it, a cottage industry of checkers and blockers, using taxpayer money to stop the Government delivering on taxpayer priorities.”
Sir Keir admitted “we always knew it was going to be contentious” to promise to build 1.5 million homes during the current Parliament, adding: “Some parts of the state haven’t got the memo.”
He warned an office conversion into 139 homes was in jeopardy “because the [cricket] ball strike assessment doesn’t appear to have been taken by a specialist qualified consultant”.
“People across Britain are frustrated, they don’t think politics works for them, it doesn’t deliver on its promises... Parts of the state see their job as blocking government from doing great things it was elected to do... We’ve cleared a watchdog state, completely out of whack with the priorities of the British people.”
This suggests that maybe President Trump and Elon Musk may be on a good path.
Regards — Cliff
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