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It's a dirty job (and nobody wants to do it)

Oh God, What Now?

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The Reputational Risk of the Civil Service

The civil service is dysfunctional, that it's being hollowed out. No one goes into the civil service for the money or the pay-in conditions. They do this because they believe fundamentally in public service. If you cannot do your job, which is the cause of any of these strikes, I think that's a much bigger risk than people just simply thinking, well, it's not something that looks terribly appealing career-wise. Yes, I think there will be but I don't actually think the reputational risk of the civil service is by any means the biggest problem here.

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