Jsut on the point about people not speaking up before....
....From listening to the R4 journalists it sounds as if various civil servants have spoken up for a long time (at least 6yrs and albeit internally), but have been overridden successively by politicians. Plus I think Fox has a good point about being asked. There must be a host of specific small fiscal items that people have and raise concerns about all the time. Also as a general rule I think civil servants tend to be pretty discrete (until shit hits the fan).
Jsut on the point about people not speaking up before....
....From listening to the R4 journalists it sounds as if various civil servants have spoken up for a long time (at least 6yrs and albeit internally), but have been overridden successively by politicians. Plus I think Fox has a good point about being asked. There must be a host of specific small fiscal items that people have and raise concerns about all the time. Also as a general rule I think civil servants tend to be pretty discrete (until shit hits the fan).