Proof the Blob doesn't exist
Just think about it. The Blob is apparently made up of a radical core of liberal civil servants who thwart the government at every step.
Yet that Blob has been telling the government that schools are at danger of collapse and school children at danger of being crushed to death if spending on maintenance and school building isn’t increased, and nothing happened.
Not a thing, minister after minister ignored the Blob, rose roughshod over civil service advice, slashed budgets and, as far as we know, didn’t even bother asking the Treasury for more money.
It is almost as if the civil service has remained devoutly loyal to its political masters even as it has seen them waste hundreds of billions, find tax cuts for millionaires, run down the NHS, eviscerate defence spending, deliberately create an asylum seeker crisis, buy useless barges, destroy green policies, undermine growth and prolong strikes.
If only there was a Blob, some or all of these things wouldn’t have happened or would have been solved years ago. Civil servants would have leaked the details of the latest scandal or cock up, forced ministers to obey the law or find the money, or even do the right thing. It has been the exact opposite of Yes Minister, the civil servants have bent over backwards, in fact done far more than they should, to give ministers what they want.
What they wanted was more for less, what we have is a collapsing state and now collapsing state schools, hospitals and municipal buildings. You get what you pay for.
The Blob is the government’s fantasy excuse for its own policies and their total failure, it always has been, it just took collapsing schools to prove it.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media