Comments on: Overall the book is an anti-checklist for Westminster https://www.isegoria.net/2022/02/overall-the-book-is-an-anti-checklist-for-westminster/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 21 May 2026 16:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Gavin Longmuir https://www.isegoria.net/2022/02/overall-the-book-is-an-anti-checklist-for-westminster/comment-page-1/#comment-3508746 Gavin Longmuir Sun, 27 Feb 2022 23:58:12 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=48690#comment-3508746 Harry J: “Do politicians get paid a performance bonus?”

Ask President Xi about the return he got from investing in the Clinton Crime Family, or ask the Ukrainians about performance bonuses sent to the Biden Crime Family!

]]> By: Jim https://www.isegoria.net/2022/02/overall-the-book-is-an-anti-checklist-for-westminster/comment-page-1/#comment-3508737 Jim Sun, 27 Feb 2022 23:39:31 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=48690#comment-3508737 “But in 2021 we saw that even after a global pandemic costing 150k lives and hundreds of billions”

Long live Comrade Stalin!

]]> By: Harry Jones https://www.isegoria.net/2022/02/overall-the-book-is-an-anti-checklist-for-westminster/comment-page-1/#comment-3508724 Harry Jones Sun, 27 Feb 2022 22:47:10 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=48690#comment-3508724 Do politicians get paid a performance bonus?

You get what you incentivize.

]]> By: Gavin Longmuir https://www.isegoria.net/2022/02/overall-the-book-is-an-anti-checklist-for-westminster/comment-page-1/#comment-3508304 Gavin Longmuir Sat, 26 Feb 2022 17:57:33 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=48690#comment-3508304 “A more fundamental problem than the failures of the civil service is that politicians do not care and are not incentivised to care about performance“

Cummings’ emphasis in the original. We have to ask ourselves, in a democracy, why would politicians not care about performance?

Is the even more fundamental problem that democracy itself is dysfunctional?

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