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A recent Guardian headline forecasts that the UK may need an additional 92,000 public workers by 2030 due to falling productivity—a reflection, critics argue, of government employees being underperformant yet still being recruited en masse. The historical context is revealing: austerity measures implemented around 2010, under the Conservative-led coalition, drastically reduced public sector numbers, but recent trends suggest a reversal driven (or justified) by presumed underperformance.