Red Tape Challenge
The government is asking for your help in cutting bureaucracy. It is admitting that it doesn’t know how to cut the red tape but at least it’s acknowledging that it could do with cutting. At least we hope so and it’s not doing a pure publicity exercise like the N10 e-Petition site invented by Tony Blair.
It is true that the politicians who put them into law and the civil servants who implement the regulations usually have no clue as to how their ideas actually work and if they do what they are supposed to do. The politicians are stupid and the civil servants just follow procedure.
The people who do actually know this are the ones who are local at the point of implementation. In other words, the people who know if the regulation does it job and is worthwhile or just a waste of space are the ones who have to use the regulation in their day to day job.
Some of the questions that need to be asked are
- Is the red tape worthwhile
- Is it effective
- Is it still useful or out of date
- Does it hinder private business
- Can it be simplified
- Is it compatible with other regulations
And final point, are new regulations needed?
I’m sure the thousands of readers of this blog can suggest other points over how the regulations can be changed. Jump over to the site and make your views known.
www.redtapechallenge.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/home/index/
SBML
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May 23, 2011 at 07:26 -
I had a look and, as a consequence, I won’t be bothering. It smacks of being either a Tony or a Sir Humphrey job. Take 30 seconds to look at the trivia and drivel on the so called ‘debate’ and you’ll see what Churchill meant when he advised that a 5 minute conversation with an average voter was all it took to reveal the flaws in democracy.
It is completely the wrong approach – tinkering around the edges and creating lots of ‘jobs’ for yet more windbags and their minions. Appearing to ‘do something’ whilst actually changing nothing.
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May 23, 2011 at 11:51 -
Pay all Public sector workers Net of tax. With a paper credit thus removing the need to collect tax from private sector to pay out to public sector to then recollect as tax.
Remove thousands of non jobs in payroll at public sector.
Job description: To distribute the already collected tax to the work force with a view to.recollecting it and returning to the same source as the department received it from.
If you could visually see what happens to £1000 of your tax as it passes through the various government/public sector departments. You would realise why the state is so big yet the country is totally broke. Everytime the money passes another department it seems to reduce.
The mafia only take 5 to 10 percent as the money moves around the government take as much as 50% for processing money movement.
The Inland revenue being the worst followed by councils.
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May 23, 2011 at 11:56 -
So, how many forms will I need to fill in to take part and how many departments will be involved? What!?!
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May 23, 2011 at 14:24 -
They could start with implementing, in full, http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Great_Repeal_Bill the great repeal bill.
After that cut the government departments to 7; home office, treasury, foreign office, defence, justice, science and education, and health and make the top person personally responsible for any cock ups. Scrap all the others and all the quangos – a few of the regulators could be absorbed into the home office and given very sharp teeth.
We then might get a government that works
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May 23, 2011 at 23:37 -
The only government minister who seems to know how to deal with them is Eric Pickles. Just cut their money and ignore the squealing. It’s the only way.
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