Home Office whistleblower reveals ‘shame’ of working on ‘crackpot Tory’ plan to criminalise homelessness
by Lazergun_Nun
Home Office whistleblower reveals ‘shame’ of working on ‘crackpot Tory’ plan to criminalise homelessness
by Lazergun_Nun
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Option 1 – criminalise homelessness so you arrest someone homeless then give them accommodation, food and then drag them through the courts at great expense to the taxpayer to give them a fine they can’t pay as the reason they’re homeless is they’ve no money. Thus continuing their cycle of being unable to get out of being homeless and making the taxpayer keep picking up the tab.
Option 2 – at far less cost to the taxpayer just identify homeless people and give them accommodation and food and support to sort their shit out and get them on the road to being a contributing member of society thus removing the need for the taxpayer to keep endlessly picking up the tab.
No surprise the Tories pick option 1 as it appeals to their knuckle dragging base as they like to see people suffer instead of thinking about what might make society objectively better for all of us. It’s all just so short sighted (see also foreign policy, “stop the boats”, Brexit etc. etc).
High grade civil servants are usually the result of decades of specialisation. You get a few that are generalists with a talent for administration, or who have the rare talents of being a good public speaker being able to motivate staff. They can nearly always step into the private sector for more money and are hard to get to return after. It’s a huge loss of investment even not including the price of the courses they took over the years at Sunningdale, now a nebulous online virtual ‘campus’. They only stay because the benefits usually balance out some of the poor wage (less so with 60%, constant efficiency drives) or because the work is for the public good.
Take away the concept of working for the public good and there’s no reason to stay. When they all leave we’ll be stuck with outsourcing, or the various consultants ‘donated’ by some of the worst people in the world. American Private Healthcare companies and evangelical anti-abortion activists mostly.