Ferdinand64

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[Ferdinand64 @Ferdinand641]

Slashing Whitehall waste is a pledge that brings to mind Augustine’s prayer for the Lord to make him virtuous – but not yet.

It is repeatedly promised by governments, but rarely delivered.

Here we are again, days out from the final Budget before voters go to the polls in a general election, and Jeremy Hunt is announcing a crackdown on bureaucracy in the public sector. He intends to reduce the civil service headcount by 66,000, returning it to pre-pandemic levels.

Do we need a Department for Culture, Media and Sport?
Voters are likely cynical. Britain’s public sector is riddled with entitlement and waste at levels described by the Chancellor as ‘immoral’.

In January the chief of the National Audit Office warned the government is squandering £10 billion every year. 

Nearly six million people are now employed in the public sector. The total public sector pay bill was around £233 billion in the 2021/22 financial year, accounting for roughly a fifth of all government spending. Yet productivity is still down on 2019. The more resources that are poured in, the less the small gains seem to be.

Rarely does the civil service sack those who aren’t up to the job or force responsibility for any mistakes.

Too many of its staff are devoting too much time to issues not related to serving the public, and seem to think it acceptable to do so.

An HR culture has taken hold, placing Whitehall at the forefront of some of the nation’s most progressive causes. 

To give a few examples: the most senior mandarin at the Ministry of Justice, who also holds the role of civil service ‘Gender Champion’, has written about ending the menopause ‘taboo’ in Whitehall and set up a ‘gender equality leadership group’.

Pride month for the NHS, police, fire departments and councils cost £500,000 last year, according to the TaxPayers’ Alliance. Last year, it was revealed that the Competition and Markets Authority was encouraging staff to spend 10 per cent of their working week on activities that fostered ‘an inclusive culture and working environment’.

Civil servants have been invited to take a ‘pronoun pledge’ and include a phonetic guide to pronouncing their own name in every missive.

While Cabinet Office minister John Glen wants the number of civil servants working from home factored into annual reviews, office occupancy remains well below pre-pandemic levels.

None the less, the PCS union, which represents public sector workers, has said it wants a four-day week across the civil service, with no reduction in pay.

When people can’t see a doctor, schools are crumbling and taxpayers are being squeezed to a degree not seen since the late-1940s, this is madness. When people say, as polls have indicated, they would rather the Chancellor’s ‘fiscal headroom’ was spent on public services than tax cuts, it’s doubtful they’re worried about a shortage of diversity and inclusion nitwits at the Cabinet Office.

A risk – if Mr Hunt does follow words with action – is that he will salami slice across the board rather than cut out whole areas. Discussions ought to be underway in the Treasury and No. 10 about whether there is any need for government involvement in early years childcare. Do we need an Arts Council, if it spends £150,000 on a London theatre to stage a show for an ‘all black audience’? Do we need a Department for Culture, Media and Sport? Is the billions we give to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero proportionate? We spend a billion pounds a year on the Office for Students and spent nearly £8 billion on the UK Health and Security Agency: has it been put to effective use?

Perhaps Hunt should look to another country, and its new leader, for inspiration. Javier Milei has, since December, reduced the number of government departments from 18 to nine and fired 30,000 public sector workers. It seems the Chancellor accepts productivity gains can be made in our public services. Now he should copy the chainsaw-wielding Argentinian president.

[Ferdinand64 @Ferdinand641]

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[Nigel Farage MP @Nigel_Farage]

Reform UK will scrap the BBC licence fee.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

GB News opens up 32% lead over Sky News & 22% over BBC News Channel to cement its position as Britain's number one news channel

https://t.co/uKTOI37UAT

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

A lot of people feel uncomfortable about saying this publicly but there is simply no denying it.

We have to speak honestly about this issue: equalities legislation, which was ostensibly about making sure there were no second class citizens created a racial hierarchy of citizenship where people are treated differently because of the colour of their skin.

Some of us have been pointing this out for a long time. I believe the evidence for this claim is now incontrovertible, no matter how uncomfortable the subject may be for some people.

Equalities legislation must be amended or scrapped and replaced with something that restores the principle of equality before the law. Indeed, you'd think equality before the law would be the very central principle of any law on equality.

This must become a minimum basic commitment for any party that seeks to form the next Government. Any party that fails to make this commitment has failed in its basic duty of understanding the catastrophic damage that has been done to race relations in this country by a decade of woke insanity.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Bear in mind that during the inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing, it came out that security guard Kyle Lawler had actually spotted suicide bomber Salman Abedi before.

Abedi was fidgety and sweating in a bulky jacket on a warm night, and carrying a large backpack. Lawler had a “bad feeling” and thought something was wrong, but he hesitated and failed to report it properly. His exact words:

“I did not want people to think I am stereotyping him because of his race… I was scared of being wrong and being branded a racist if I got it wrong and would have got into trouble.”

22 innocents were killed; hundreds scarred for life.

This bloodbath should have been the final wake-up call about the lethal insanity of “anti-racism” and the deranged cult that treats being called racist as the ultimate unforgivable sin.

Instead, Britain doubled down and rammed this poisonous ideology even deeper into the College of Policing’s training.

Time to scrap the race-baiting training and fire the ideologues. Or keep burying more young, innocent Brits.

[Alexandra Marshall @ellymelly]

Mass migration did not make the world 'more diverse'.

It expanded the monotonous third-world ghetto into the formerly diverse, niche parts of the world.

Hundreds of cultures have been erased.

Cities turned into slums.

Civilisations that took 10,000 years to build - totally f--ked.

Who knows if this can even be fixed.

[Written In Oak @writteninoak]

Nigel Farage has won the next election with his speech on the Henry Novak affair. The Cold Rage speech will be remembered as one of the defining speeches of the ages. Absolutely historic.
https://t.co/bwz5fafdwL

[Thomas King @TomK_Brit1993]

Nigel Farage isn't the face of division.

This is.

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Keir Starmer and The Blob are following the same script as after Southport.

Don’t fix the borders.
Blame Nigel Farage.

Don’t deport those who hate us.
Blame Nigel Farage.

Don’t crush the grooming gangs.
Blame Nigel Farage.

Don’t fix two-tier policing.
Blame Nigel Farage.

[Ferdinand64 @Ferdinand641]

@bo66ie29 Glad you like them.

[Winston Marshall @MrWinMarshall]

These scum bag politicians are appalling. Two-tier policing is literally in the police code. The audacity to go after Farage for speaking the truth is a disgrace. They’re more upset with him than about the murder. Starmer is a nasty, nasty piece of work

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

I will take absolutely no lectures about "divisiveness" from the people who gave us two-tier policing, racial hiring quotas and endless race-baiting.

Unlike you, we do not kneel.

[Madeline Grant @Madz_Grant]

Yes. Henry Nowak's family also spoke of wanting to drive change and learn lessons. Nigel Farage's question referred to something explicitly 'two-tier' in the current police code of conduct that should be changed - i.e. a practical solution. I don't buy that the parameters of public debate should be set entirely by the grieving family, but even if they were, this was in the remit of what they had called for

[Ferdinand64 @Ferdinand641]

@DamianLow3 https://t.co/itdjM72EZN

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is literally insane

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage “We had an email come through this morning from a senior Hampshire police officer who said, "We are told to police incidents differently according to the ethnicity of those involved”

“I feel a sense of cold rage”

The UK is so far gone that the liberal government under Keir Starmer is telling the police to target white people and dismiss immigrants

White People are already a global minority and this is just going to get worse and worse

People need to understand how serious this is, we saw this in America under Democrats too

Democrats were literally instructing the Justice Department to go after white moms and Christians

If we don’t stand up soon and take our countries back, it’s going to get very ugly. Just look at South Africa

[Ferdinand64 @Ferdinand641]

@ianrich15813274 Don’t let the truth spoil Labour lies.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is literally insane

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage “We had an email come through this morning from a senior Hampshire police officer who said, "We are told to police incidents differently according to the ethnicity of those involved”

“I feel a sense of cold rage”

The UK is so far gone that the liberal government under Keir Starmer is telling the police to target white people and dismiss immigrants

White People are already a global minority and this is just going to get worse and worse

People need to understand how serious this is, we saw this in America under Democrats too

Democrats were literally instructing the Justice Department to go after white moms and Christians

If we don’t stand up soon and take our countries back, it’s going to get very ugly. Just look at South Africa

[Ferdinand64 @Ferdinand641]

@JonathanPieNews We all get screenings dickhead if we’re older.

[Colin Brazier @ColinBrazierTV]

The Novak family made clear that the police got things wrong, and spelled out how with infinite dignity.
Police double-standards are an entirely legitimate subject for public debate.
As someone who 'took the knee' for the discredited BLM movement (which sought to abolish prisons and defund law enforcement) you are in no position to criticise anyone for politicising a death in police custody.
As a politician struggling to hold onto office you are entitled to play every card at your disposal.
But this is amoral and grotesque.

[Ferdinand64 @Ferdinand641]

Floyd had a serious heart condition, overdosed on fentanyl, and was being held according to the police officer’s training.

Floyd had beaten his pregnant girlfriend, had been a porn star, and was being arrested on suspicion of theft. He was a very large, intimidating, unpredictable, and aggressive man, and Starmer got down on his knees for him.

Nowak was an innocent WHITE man probably killed by a psycho, and Farage had received a letter explaining the police orders for tiered policing. Vile hypocrites like you try to deflect from Starmer’s guilt.

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

Murder of Henry Nowak is NOT our “George Floyd”

A jury found Floyd was killed by a white police officer, actions celebrated by some on the Right
Nowak was killed by a Sikh civilian, condemned by everyone & deserves to rot in jail

Sarah Everard was our “Floyd”
Never forget her

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

"It's just bad policing."

No it's not. It's more than that.

"The officer obeyed. Not to an order. To a framework. A framework that had taught him, over years, that a racism complaint is the most dangerous accusation in his career.

More dangerous, in his conditioned reflex, than a body bleeding out in front of him."

This is it.

We have seen this play out many times before. Recall the Covington incident in D.C. where a short clip of a Native elder drumming just inches from the face of a white, MAGA-hat-wearing Catholic boy went viral on social media.

It was immediately framed through the classic oppressor/victim lens of the modern era. Nick Sandmann was called a “smirking” racist; the students were doxxed, threatened, and their school closed temporarily. Turns out that was far from the truth and CNN had to pay a crazy amount in damages to Nick.

The framework acts like a casting director who has already written the script before the event even happens. Roles are pre-determined and moral hierarchy is inscribed:

privileged white teens = villains
minority activist = noble victim

The officers stepped into their parts because deviating from the framework risked career death (race-conscious policing is actual policy) and social ostracism.

The real problem then is a system and culture that trains normal people to distrust their own senses and common sense, in favor of the framework.

What Britain and the West broadly are up against is to unwind decades of psychological programming, ideological capture, groupthink, and institutional scripting.

It starts with recognizing that the framework must die.