Good piece. One could also point out that officials are very often the sacrificial lambs of these scandals. Oftentimes they are running ludicrously underfunded and understaffed organisations to impossibly high performance metrics - metrics which often have little to do with the public interest. The NHS for instance needs to be “leaner” to appeal to private investors..it’s really quite shocking how the media overlooks financial constraints and incentives as contributory factors to these scandals not least because they are the financial constraints and incentives their publications demand from public services on a regular basis..they like to blame specific supposedly useless public servants or abstract bureaucratic inertia more generally…
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Good piece. One could also point out that officials are very often the sacrificial lambs of these scandals. Oftentimes they are running ludicrously underfunded and understaffed organisations to impossibly high performance metrics - metrics which often have little to do with the public interest. The NHS for instance needs to be “leaner” to appeal to private investors..it’s really quite shocking how the media overlooks financial constraints and incentives as contributory factors to these scandals not least because they are the financial constraints and incentives their publications demand from public services on a regular basis..they like to blame specific supposedly useless public servants or abstract bureaucratic inertia more generally…
The one thing that made me sit up was the extent to which the NHS is complicit. It’s a faith shattering moment.
How many more days of shame do we need to endure ?