Ministers are planning to speed up public appointments to bodies such as Ofcom, the Environment Agency and BBC by allowing more of the hiring process to be delegated to senior officials.
In the biggest shake-up of the public appointments process in a decade, the Cabinet Office is producing new guidance governing how candidates can be picked for about 4,000 public roles.
The changes are being made because of excessive delays in the hiring system and extended vacancies, with ministers currently consulted at every step of the process – meaning only about one in seven appointments were completed in less than three months.
Under the new rules, ministers will be able to choose to delegate much more of the process to officials, while retaining the final say over who is chosen and the job specification.
If they cannot manage to hire 4,000 people then what in buggery maks ’em think they can run an economy?
Thing is though, these are exactly the types of bodies that need to be shut down, the employees sacked and the CEOs executed.
It’s Blairism. Set up arms-length government agencies and get your mates of a similar political outlook to run ’em. In this way you remove government functionality from democratic oversight whilst baking in your own political outlook.
Allowing these Blairites to choose their own staff simply bakes in the process even more. The result will always be left wing/collectivist, as various people and “laws” have made clear, because it is the collectivist personality type that is attracted to these jobs and organisations in the first place.
And one of the great failings (among many) of the previous Tory administration was their failure to install their own people to these bodies.
They had every opportunity but failed to do so. Almost as if they were happy with the lefty status quo….
The purpose of a system is what it does.
Looks like a power play to Gamecock.
It is quite possible there are 4,000 vacancies because NO ONE WANTS THE FU(&ING JOBS.
So, let’s exploit this to give ourselves more power.
It is an inoculation against Reform gaining power. It will make it harder for Reform to install their placemen after the next election.
Trump found this out in his first administration. He accepted the establishment’s advisors and paid the price for it. In the second Trump administration, he came loaded for bear, with much better results.
And Nigel is no fool, and Trump’s friend. He’ll be expecting these kinds of roadblocks and planning for them. I’d go so far as to say that were he elected, if his government’s first act was not to repeal this kind of legislation and get rid of the Blairite quangocrats he’s not serious. Nothing else can be achieved until this is done.
I don’t see how doing that will make an difference. Most of these quangos do actually do things you want done. It’s why they exist. So you do actually need the people in them doing what they’re doing. And they’re all so politicised, just changing what you call them isn’t going to change how they do what they do. It’s not s simple as that.
Which is why of course they were set up in the first place.
A fish rots from the head. You have to change the Chief Executives, and effectively discipline staff who don’t carry out the work allocated to them.
In many cases there is no need for them, or any alternative government agency to exist.
Which reminds me, maybe I should revisit the original job description I was hired for on a a three month contract ten years ago?
Nah, I still get phone calls every day. I must be adding some value.