‘Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.’ C. Mackay
@DPJHodges Let’s hope the ugliness doesn’t lead your boy Burnham to inadvertently expose himself as a thin-skinned professional politician of no fixed convictions whatsoever beyond an immense and unjustified self-regard
@DPJHodges Meanwhile back in the real world, has Burnham not just U-turned on his tax pledge? While I'm sure the nation is giving due attention to his cafe spat, his policy offering is looking a little.. amateurish?
@AndyBurnhamGM@christiancalgie How remiss of the Post Office to deliver this letter to Andy Burnham and not Nigel Farage. Words should be had with the Postmaster General
@DPJHodges Seems like your boy Burnham has a pretty fragile temper and a dislike of being asked about actual policies. Still, I'm sure it will all go brilliantly once he's PM, just like the current incumbent
@DPJHodges He's spent every waking minute for God-knows how long scheming to become PM. Please do not let another moron with no idea about governing the country other than that he should be the one doing it into office.
In economic terms, productivity here broadly means:
Output produced per unit of input
For the private sector: usually measured as output per hour worked. For the public sector, ONS uses a more complex measure - outputs: healthcare treatments, lessons taught, policing activity, etc.
inputs: labour, capital, procurement spending
https://t.co/UvyKwWjma0
Incredibly, despite the rise of the internet and computers, the public sector has failed to improve productivity at all in the last 30-odd years. If you want to test this proposition, look around you.