The last 15 years could have been avoided with three Labour sliding doors moments. Brown goes to the polls when he was immensely popular rather than bottling out, the right Milliband wins the leadership, and Corbyn well....dematerialises.
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I think their feeling of relief is shared up and down the nation.After years of being gaslit by government, we civil servants can breathe again under Labour | The civil servant
Colleagues tell me how much they value Keir Starmer’s promise to treat us with respect. Above all, there is a profound sense of relief, says the secret civil servant
There’s already a difference. Of course, the uneducated will say it’s because the CS is full of lefties. That’s mostly nonsense. The CS has people of all political persuasions as does all large employers. For the vast majority of those who do the real work of the civil service at the sharp end the day to day workings of government make no difference and it’s fine for them not to understand I wouldn’t care in their position. They’ll continue to sort out the vital stuff that keeps the country going. Massive respect for those people. But for those charged with making and implementing policy it makes such a difference when the people who make the decisions don’t treat them like the enemy. That’s happened way too often in the last 15 years but it’s been more common since June 2016.
I don't know about run out of ideas. I think their endgame is probably rejoining the EU and that will take a long time, maybe 15 years so there is plenty of work to do on that front and they may have to push for electoral reform to get there. Their first term will probably be taken up with correcting all the errors of the last 14 years and provided they deliver enough of that and people can feel the difference, that should get them a second term to push on with loftier targets.
At the moment, that's all we can do. It would be nice to see it happen in my lifetime but I'm not confident I'll last that long!
