Civil service time warp - Promises of reform not acceptable

MAYBE it’s because we so fervently want to believe there is commitment to improving how the public and civil services do the business of this country that we prick up our ears when union bosses acknowledge reform has to be part of the response to our difficulties.

Civil service time warp - Promises of reform not acceptable

Maybe it’s because we want to believe that promises, made in this time of desperation, will be kept unlike those so freely offered to secure benchmarking.

Certainly, we want to believe that the dangerous divisions between public and private sectors might be bridged if we all had improved services. Most certainly we want to believe — and hope — that the potential of the public service might be realised by modernisation.

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