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When they were in opposition, Labour lambasted the ruling Conservatives for spending £500m a year on consultants. Now they are in government, New Labour seem to have changed their minds and are spending close to £10bn a year on consultants. Frustrated with opposition to his reforms from the Labour Party and the Civil Service, Tony Blair has sidelined both and now makes and implements policy using his favourite consultants. The results have so far been disastrous - billions wasted on worthless consulting and failed IT systems. New Labour is planning to spend over £60bn on consultants - over £40bn will be wasted due to consultants' overselling, incompetence, greed and fraud. This will mean £40bn being taken out of frontline services like hospitals, schools, police and social services.
The end result will be a huge increase in administration, an equally huge decrease in frontline services, promotions and honours for those who have wasted the money and the creation of more millionaires than The National Lottery ever gave us.
Plundering the public sector is a shocking story of what will probably be the biggest waste of taxpayers' money in British history.
book reviews
- Robert Heller
"Any sensible government would insist on making it compulsory reading for all ministers and senior civil servants. Fat chance." - Spectator
"David Craig and Richard Brooks have performed an immense public service, and this horrifying book deserves a wide readership."
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