As we know the Rural Payments Agency has been going through something of a tough time recently. The latest victims of the Government’s complete inability to install a computer system: 

Last month Lord Bach was moved from his post as farms
minister after a week in office because of the Rural Payments Agency’s
failure to pay £1.5 billion of European subsidies on time to English
farmers and landowners.

The fiasco has pushed many farmers to the brink of bankruptcy.

Well, aye, that was the reason given anyway. The good news (?) for people like Tim still awaiting their cheques is that the problem may actually be a great deal simpler. No, not that the computer system isn’t crocked, but that the entire department is so badly mismanaged that whoever is in charge should simply be fired: politician or civil servant:

Civil servants are said to have had sex in the
lavatories, taken drugs, used foul language, brawled in the reception
area and held break-dancing contests in working hours.

Some
of the goings-on at the Rural Payments Agency, a branch of the
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in Lancaster House,
Newcastle upon Tyne, are believed to have been captured on CCTV.
…

"Activities have been captured on official cameras.
Specifically ‘these activities’ refers to leaping from cabinet to
cabinet in underwear and believe it or not – but the evidence exists –
naked.

"There is an horrific new craze of vomiting
into official cups and leaving the cups to fester in cupboards until
discovered through the horrendous smell. There is a list of shocking
and awful acts in work time including sex in the toilets, drug-taking
and swearing is rife."

You see, that’s what they do with your money. Really does bring home the point that taxes need to be ever higher to pay for the necessities and wonders that an all embracing and benevolent State bring us, doesn’t it?

They’ve obviously been taking management tips from John Prescott: which leads to a question. At least one person has been fired so far. Was it for the sex part? ? If so, presumably that was for bringing the State into disrepute by doing it in the toilet rather than behind the office door like Deputy Prime Ministers do.