The british government has a parasitic relationship with consultancy companies. They hire consultants for £1,500 per day from PWC, Deloitte, etc. https://youtu

The british government has a parasitic relationship with consultancy companies. They hire consultants for £1,500 per day from PWC, Deloitte, etc. https://youtu.be/ycVBoWsGLJs https://youtu.be/ycVBoWsGLJs There are 3 kinds of consultants - experienced civil service employees that were poached because they were underpaid - so now the consultancy pays them 80k instead of 50 but charges them out for a fortune. Or they are generalists working for the consultancy, and are about as skilled as the civil servants themselves. Only a small fraction of consultants are really so specialised that you only need the expertise occasionally and should be contracting them