No demand for many graduates

The failing in the services provided across the board in the public and private sectors, is attributable to two major decisions by the politicians. The first was to join the bureaucratic, and undemocratic European Union. the second

being Tony Blair’s policy of sending 50% of youngsters to university.

The intention that so many pupils, however unacademic, should be pushed into tertiary education necessitated a reduction in standards throughout the system, from school to college.

This has resulted in many now having degrees which are of no real use, but for which they had paid large sums and spent many years obtaining.

In order to conceal this fact, government has been obliged to create pointless managerial jobs, particularly in the civil service, and NHS, which absorb resources, yet contribute almost nothing worthwhile.

The main culprit is the malevolent effect of transferring democratic control to unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.

Our more than 40 years in the EU has left us with a managerial culture, which hamstrings large numbers of organisations and diverts resources from the task of creating prosperity.

The worst of these misbegotten creations is of course the human resources industry.

We must complete the revolution against the bureaucrats by abolishing the whole of the HR industry. This will reduce the number of managers in the NHS, dismissing those public employees who will not come into the office, and ceasing to waste time and money turning out ever more graduates for whom there is no demand,

while foolishly continuing to neglect the creation of apprenticeships, and on-the-job learning.

Colin Bullen