When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade.
When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.
In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service art attendants praise all the dead, irrelevant scribblings and scrawlings that, at best, have only historical interest for idiots and layabouts.
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