Tory party post election direction

The analogy isn't perfect but it isn't particularly flawed either. Many policies are interconnected and make no sense at all set as compromises between differing views. The second problem is even more profound and dangerous though

Let's imagine our hikers have two leadership candidates (leaders of two sub gangs), Alice and Bob. Alice suggests they head north and Bob suggests they head south. When the group finally realises east was the wrong direction, neither Alice or bob (or anyone) can be held accountable for the decision and so sacked. This means an incompetent leadership contribution can hide unexamined and remain in situe permanently because nobody can be held properly accountable for that incompetence. Lets imagine tyhe group finally realise that east was the wrong decision and so have to decide on a new course of action - they vote again and decide that heading west is a compromise between Alice and Bob's position. When they finally decide that going west was also the wrong choice, they will vote again and arrive at another compromise.  The group now knows it is making the wrong choices but has no way to change the situation.

Magrathea, what you are explaining goes on all the time. Mistakes and bad decisions are hidden both by the perpetrator and others, including leaders in order to save the reputation of the party. Worse still is that we often don't know when it's happening, even worse is that those who could expose it have too many skeletons in their own closet.

Fact is the current system is hopeless at creating good governance and rather than what we have, I'd settle for a benevolent dictator, a de Gaulle as an example, a man who pulled the French out of the grasp of unstable politics.

In this case nobody has to hide their culpability because literally nobody is culpable. The current problems are caused by the elected government being borked by an over-powerful bureaucratic administration who effectively is the government. Changing the electoral system wont adjust that. Changing it to Pr will likely remove the accountability we have

Reform UK are committed to re-organising the civil service. The Tories have a plan to do the same but it's not working, in fact they've had plans for ten years or more and they didn't work either. 

Richard Tice, their leader, is a really nice gentlemanly guy but he's also a sharp businessman. Many of the candidates are business people, not the uni-educated jerks who having left, went immediately into some sort of politics job as researchers or aides and have never experienced a real job. Many achieved a degree in nothing worthwhile, they're easy meat when it comes to the hustings.

Here's Reform UK's policy on the civil service and here's a link to all their policies:

 assets.nationbuilder.com/reformuk/pages/19/attachments/original/1671551989/Reform-is-Essential-Dec2022.pdf

• Every day we see examples of

wasteful, bad or unnecessary spending

of our money by councils, public

services or the Government.

• Tens of billions of pounds of our

money is wasted every year. This also

acts as a brake on our growth rate.

• Reform UK knows that with better

leadership, better buying, better

decisions, this waste of our money can

be cut right back, without affecting

front line services.

• This needs real reform of the civil

service — with more accountability

— for quality performance. It needs

more successful private sector people

coming into the civil service to use

their skills to help get better value for

the Government. Let’s make it part of

our moral duty to society — to give

something back.

•

• One of the worst areas of wasteful

government spending is ineffective

foreign aid. Our civil servants struggle

to give away the billions of pounds

each year, so they end up giving

money to the EU and other global

bodies to help spend it. We would

reduce the foreign aid budget by 50%,

down to a still generous 0.35% of GDP.