1) Population UK in 1909 was 45.2 million.
2) Civil Service was circa 50,000.
3) Population today - unknown but well above 70+ million.
4) Civil Service today is in excess of 549,000.
Population has probably not increased by 85%.
Allowing that many justifiable new schemes will have started in the intervening years and increases in population taken into account - we could have maybe seen a huge increase in employment by the Civil Service.
Let us allow a mega increase by, let us say, 300%. That would have meant a truly painful rise to 200 thousand employees.
I wonder if anyone might be able to answer how we could possibly be 350,000 above that generously estimated figure?
Furthermore, with the current use of: computers, printers, telephones, photocopiers, AI and assorted labour- saving devices etc - shouldn't the numbers of employees actually have reduced from all of their previously tougher and considerably slower working conditions?
Just asking.
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