I wonder how often you've dealt with actual civil servants. Two problems: 1. Many civil services have unionised to the point where civil servants effectively c

I wonder how often you've dealt with actual civil servants. Two problems: 1. Many civil services have unionised to the point where civil servants effectively cannot be fired. Guess how competent the resulting staff are. 2. Even if they could be easily fired, their hiring processes are also frequently a joke. To give an example, the average age of officials at the British Treasury department is 27. This is not widely known, because officials love to hide behind anonymity, especially when publishing reports that sound superficially clever and authoritative but are later proven to be dead wrong about everything. There's no accountability anywhere. Just look at how much difficulty civil servants have in even just managing contracts with third party providers. Now imagine how much harder they find it to actually do the work themselves.