Re: Translation
And:
He said it was a process that will take years.
In other words, outsourcing all those jobs wasn't the right thing to do after all.
I don't actually blame the Civil Service on this one (although Bacon is right about them being far too slow to respond to the situation). Every so often politicians get into a willy-waving contest about who will trim the most waste from public services, without stopping to consider if it really is waste that's going to be trimmed. They don't seem to realise that they're going to waste more of our money on the likes of Fujitsu and Crapita in the long run.