Having Tackled the bigger Departments, it is time to examine the smaller Ministeries. They have lower profiles and their role is lost in acronyms, but they can still waste a lot of money.

The DCMS – the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. A mere 2,750 staff (How do they cope?) Their main job seems to be giving Ministers freebe tickets to concerts and sports events and reigning in the excesses of the BBC. Since the first is not needed and the second is an abject failure, maybe it’s time to shut down the DCMS altogether. Another elephant bite in the Civil Service behind🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🤡

How about the mysteriously named DLUHC – Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. Nobody quite knows what it does, but it has over 10,000 staff not doing it. If they closed tomorrow nobody would notice, so there is another saving 🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🤡

Or how about the curiously named, DESNZ – ( goodness knows why we should have a whole department dedicated to New Zealand) – actually it’s the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero. Ed Elasticband is the Minister in charge and he has been busy closing down drilling for oil; shutting down power stations and erecting windmills everywhere, because he says energy will be a lot cheaper by 2050. As long as we buy an electric car NOW. There is probably 3,500 staff there that can be saved, although Ed is a bit fuzzy on numbers. If we “drill baby drill” and forget Net Zero for a while that would be another significant saving 🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🤡

With the help of AI the Last Laugh Looney Party has shown how the bloated Civil Service can be dramatically slimmed down, while at the same time improving productivity. It just needs one big data base in the sky.

Of course the staff no longer required would normally be entitled to considerable redundancy costs, but the LLLP has a plan for that. Instead of being dismissed, staff will be granted extra unpaid holidays until they reach retirement age. A bit like “working from home” without the work or the pay🤡