Despite falling productivity, the cost of civil servant salaries has soared to £19.7 billion, up 11 per cent in just one year and UK taxpayers are footing the bill. The size of Britain’s Civil Service has ballooned to its biggest in nearly two decades – with figures showing 546,000 bureaucrats now on the payroll, the highest since 2006 … Continue reading BLOATED BRITAIN: CIVIL SERVICE SWELLS UNDER LABOUR TO HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE TONY BLAIR