..... and we all know who's to blame.
IMHO
I think the culture of cost cutting, market forces, and the lack of morale and general malaise in the Civil Service, outsourcing, privatisation and rot in the public sector (leading us to where we are todiay) has been going on for longer than the last 10 years. I think it goes back to the previous shower.
Incompetence is not the domain of Noo Labor.
It is IMHO the same philosophy that has destroyed our primary and secondary school education, and if the tinkering continues at universities, we will loose our reputations here as well.
Health service, telecom, post, rail. OK BR was a money pit - nothing changed there then- but it was safer.