Any migrants recently landed at Dover might be under the impression that the efficiency of our Border Force, chaperoning them to the latest stately home masquerading as an asylum centre, is indicative of the nation’s ability to get things done. Sadly, this is pretty much the extent of our public services: welcome to Britain, where nothing actually works. Not only is the UK’s public sector bloated out of all proportion, but its workers are also the least likely to show up in the morning (unless you count standing on the picket lines). If it’s not teachers, BBC journalists, university lecturers, or civil servants, it’s junior doctors going on strike—no wonder Ukrainian refugees are going home for treatment, rather than face the war zone of the NHS.
