Should the Human Rights Act be repealed?

[WTFH]

I don't hate Europe. And I'm prone to typos.

Once would be a typo. Multiple times shows how your brain is wired.

[NotAllThere]

What I do hate is being governed by an unelected bureaucracy of statists, and a domestic civil service that gold plates every little diktat they come up with.

The governing... well that's debateable. But the domestic civil service is bonkers.

[SueEllen]

I don't hate Europe. And I'm prone to typos.

What I do hate is being governed by an unelected bureaucracy of statists, and a domestic civil service that gold plates every little diktat they come up with.

The government makes policy and the civil service job is to carry out that policy.

If you don't like how a civil service department is carrying out a government policy then contact the minister(s) in charge of that department.

[malvolio]

The government makes policy and the civil service job is to carry out that policy.

If you don't like how a civil service department is carrying out a government policy then contact the minister(s) in charge of that department.

A common fallacy. You need to go back a step.

Government policy is almost wholly driven by political considerations, but also by statistical analysis of trends, short and long term economic factors, and to a large extent, upcoming SWOT analyses that they use to inform their decision making.

Who do you think prepares them?

[WTFH]

A common fallacy. You need to go back a step.

Government policy is almost wholly driven by political considerations, but also by statistical analysis of trends, short and long term economic factors, and to a large extent, upcoming SWOT analyses that they use to inform their decision making.

Who do you think prepares them?

Cambridge Analytica, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and other government advisors

[SueEllen]

Cambridge Analytica, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and other government advisors

You forgot YouGov and focus groups.

[WTFH]

You forgot YouGov ...

You're correct. I left out Nadhim Zahawi's business. How stupid of me to forget it.

[malvolio]

Not right either. Party hacks and researchers take notice of your references for the political judgements. The Civil Service does the numbers.