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Britain’s shambolic evacuation of Sudan has highlighted the weaknesses of idle Foreign Office
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YOU would think civil servants could organise an evacuation.
They evacuated their Whitehall offices fast enough three years ago, never to return.
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But their response so far to the Sudan crisis has been shambolic — and shamed by other nations.
Could it be because more than 60 per cent of Foreign Office staff are still allowed to work from home?
Covid is behind us, yet their desks remain unmanned.
It is simply an unwarranted perk, despite its obvious detriment to teamwork.
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How urgent and co-ordinated could any effort be to rescue thousands of Brits from an African war zone when key officials pad down the hall in slippers to “work” from their spare room?
Demand they return, though, or contact them to complain about their performance, and they’ll file a bullying complaint, as Tory Ministers are discovering.
Yet the tales of Foreign Office indifference towards those stranded in Sudan are appalling.
Thank God, at least, for our forces on the scene.
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The civil service was monumentally inefficient even before Covid gave it an excuse to get worse.
Today the price is being paid by terrified Brits racing to join the belated airlift.
Total shower
HOW long must Britain endure water firms rewarding bosses with jaw-dropping salaries while failing at the basics?
To its shame South West Water has imposed a hosepipe ban for millions until December even as their bills soar.
March was the wettest in 40 years.
The region had twice its normal rainfall.
But the water giant says reservoirs are still low because of last year’s dry summer.
Can it also have something to do with the 90 million litres it lost every day in 2021-22 through leaks?
That’s 36 Olympic swimming pools a day.
The firm recently made a £144million profit.
Why isn’t it spending that fixing more leaks, instead of handing its boss a reported £1.6million package while its customers cannot hose down their car?
Meanwhile, at Thames Water, reservoir levels are fine but it still wants families to collect rain because the weather “remains uncertain”. When is it not?
Why are some water giants defeated by a dry spell?
Why doesn’t their watchdog Ofwat whip them into line?
Sort the boats
TALKING of wet, the mind boggles at hand-wringing Tories still trying to dilute Rishi Sunak’s Bill to stop illegal migration.
We expect that from the left-wing open-borders brigade, who embrace all-comers as long as they aren’t placed in THEIR constituencies.
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Tory rebels should know the small boats scandal MUST end, but Britain will still welcome genuine war refugees.
The Government has to resolve this crisis. Voters demand it.
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