Mullardman
Moderately extreme...
Except that I've worked with several coming in from the outside (the private sector - the real world) and you worked for one (or more) of them.... I wonder who might have a more balanced view... hint, it's not you!
Anyway I will leave it there as I doubt I'm going to change your mind.... another problem with council workers is they are very insular to change!
The only thing you are correct about is that I won't change my mind.
You are the one who is trying to blame local councils for the failure of Superfi.
You generalise that ALL councils are useless and all council workers are insular and resistant to change. This is obviously wrong to anyone who knows anything about the change which has been imposed by Central Govt on local councils and their workers. Something you clearly have zero knowledge of. Did it occur to you that they are also bound by rules and procedures simply because they are charged with the effective use of public money?
As for your typical but weak 'Real World' jibe. I've worked in both sectors. Have you?
And we've all seen how effective the Private Sector is at running publicly funded services. The failure of numerous 'outsourcing' projects by Serco, Crapita et.al has just poured public money iinto the hands of the Tories' mates and made services worse. but the bosses still got their bonuses.
'Those in glass houses...'
For your info I have, over a 50 year period, worked in many different industries in both public and private sector. I've seen the best and the worst of both and I've seen the damage wrought to both by Govts, especially Tory Govts who mostly adopt the same simplistic line as you.
Just trying to blame 'greedy, useless councils', for the failure of what many on here see as a pretty ineffective and badly run company is a bit feeble.... don't you think?
And by the way... Local Councils are also subject to Audit, although our wonderful Tory Govt, recently flogged off the Audit Commission to some bunch of privateers and turned it into a 'Limited Company'. That should please you, but if the private sector does as well at Audit as it has interfering in other public sector areas it doesn't understand then look out for another failure a la Crapita, Serco, Circle, Carillion etc.
That's 'yer 'real world'..
And.. for what it's worth, I've also worked in hi-fi retail..