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“Civil servants in the UK are renowned for being inherently lazy, incompetent and devious.”

Depressing to see such low-quality nonsense on HackerNews.

Likewise with your comment mate

https://www.clivebates.com/documents/lazycivilservant.pdf

I’m not sure that an amusing leaflet, ostensibly about civil servants but equally humorous to anyone in a large private enterprise, refutes the parent’s point.

there are several brilliant documentaries[⁰][¹] about the inner political circles in Britain which make exactly the point GP is alluding to:

[⁰] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thick_of_It

[¹] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister

Civil servants are not "known" for anything. The civil service is a lumbering giant but you can't characterise it in such terms. You can try but you'd need to drive to a castle to get your eyes tested first

Civil servants are renowned for those things in every country.