Again I don't think that's entirely fair. There are plenty of competent and well-intentioned people working within "government" in the broad sense in this count

Again I don't think that's entirely fair. There are plenty of competent and well-intentioned people working within "government" in the broad sense in this country. The public sector here is huge and does a lot of useful things, many of which we take for granted but would certainly miss if they went away. We just notice the big screw-ups because when you're running a national government for tens of millions of people those headline failures are going to have an impact on a lot of people. When it comes to government I am certainly a sceptic of modern politics but with the rank and file staff in the civil service, QUANGOs, and other government-run services I prefer to assume good faith. Clearly a lot of those people got dealt a bad hand with the recent administrations in particular but no matter which colour of politics is currently running the show there will always be some element of that and yet those useful things still get done.