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Ali

The equivalent in Government the Permanent Secretary get paid quite a lot. The Home Office one got between £195,000 to £199,000 per year plus a nice pension no doubt. But I suppose if you have to work with Theresa May .....

Arkady

Yaggamuffin – elected officials decide general policy direction, and sit on committees that make some specific decisions. But the people responsible for implementing the policy and making day-to-day decisions are professional bureaucrats. You really wouldn’t want it any other way.

Papa

Elected officials specialise in pretending to listen to the public and promising them what they want, but are rarely able to deliver.

Officers/civil servants specialise in telling the public they'll get what's good for them and doing what suits the bureaucrat best, sadly they deliver that all too often.

Ali

Papa L you seem to have enlighten views on the public sector - Do you work in it ?