“Yes Minister, Civil Service staff numbers now easily exceed half a million”
“Yes Minister, but we’re ‘the elite’ of the 6 million employed in the public sector”
“Yes Minister, we appreciate our staffing has risen by 25% in 10 years and we’re now growing faster still”
“Yes Minister, it is perhaps regrettable we cannot tell you which core functions 70% of the staff perform”
“Yes Minister, I do understand it might look like we’ve put most of our personnel onto higher grades and pay”
“Yes Minister, we thought it best not to mention our gold-plated pensions in the annual report”

Observations

In recent years we have heard many times from politicians about the inertia they have experienced from the Civil Service when it comes to implementing changes available to the UK without the shackles formerly imposed on it by reason of its membership of the EU. It therefore seemed appropriate to look at the organisation.

One example of such changes was the 'REUL' affair - the intention of the Government to do away with retained EU laws under the REUL Bill. Orginally the intention was to have a 'sunset clause' whereby all retained EU laws not altered or repealed would automatically be repealed on 31 December 2023.

This never happened and to this day we are stuck with thousands of EU laws which are inappropriate for the UK and which are holding the UK back from realising its full potential as an independent country. The Civil Service made it very clear they would be unable to complete this work and we have been told that their intransigence quite clearly came from the Remainer-Rejoiner mindset and belief system of senior Civil Servants.

In Part II of this report we will examine other aspects of the state of our Civil Service and will comment further.

The Facts4EU.Org site and all its activities such as conferences, video interviews, forums, etc, are :-

• Advert-free : no annoying distractions or ‘pop-ups’
• Paywall-free : Reading our news and reports does not require you to sign up and pay
• Merchandising-free : We don’t try to sell you t-shirts or coffee mugs advertising ourselves
• Sponsorship-free : No corporate sponsorship funds our reports – we’re independent
• We’re funded by donations from you – the public

The content :-

• Unique, original, well-researched reports
• No ‘re-hashing’ of articles you’ll read elsewhere
• Based on official data, statements and reports, analysed by us
• Transparent sources : Whether it’s the EU Commission, the ONS, or the IMF, we state where we obtained our data
• It's you who funds us – the public - and literally every £5 keeps us alive

NOTICE : Facts4EU has now scaled back to publishing 5 days-a-week

For over eight years we have worked seven days-a-week. As far as we are aware we are the only organisation of our type to have done this. We are grateful to those of our readers who have made donations but sadly the level of our funding is now such that we must make it stretch for as long as we can. This means team members taking other paid work and reducing our output to five days-a-week.

Please, please help us to carry on our vital work in defence of independence, sovereignty, democracy and freedom by donating today. Thank you.