The crude axe wielded by 'Rees-Mogg and Johnson will further demoralise what is left of what used to be a civil service admired throughout the world. One can understand the need to stand down those recruited to see Brexit through (though far better not to have created the need for them in the first place). However, the intention is to cut jobs across the board when there are some Departments which are clearly understaffed. Revenue & Customs and Companies House need more enforcement people, not fewer. One often hears stories of undue delays in social service Departments in processing claims. And would the pension payment errors which hit the headlines in the last decade or so have occurred in a fully-staffed Work and Pensions?
The danger is of creating the sort of corrupt bureaucracy one associates with Latin countries, where only a bribe will guarantee service.
I suggest that the first cuts should rather be of special advisers, whose salaries ranging from £40,500 to £145,000 a year must be well beyond those of the people who will be put on the street by Johnson and Rees-Mogg. .
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