# If civil servants have to make the grade, MPs should too

## Performance targets | Jack Vettriano | Art and science | School choirs | King Charles’s song choice



If civil servants have to make the grade, MPs should too
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Performance targets | Jack Vettriano | Art and science | School choirs | King Charles’s song choice

Tue 11 Mar 2025 13.26 EDT. Last modified on Tue 11 Mar 2025 13.31 EDT. 

I see that the government is planning a cull of civil servants and will be aiming to incentivise underperformers to leave (). I wonder whether a similar plan is envisaged to deal with politicians of a likewise disposition. If so, we had better prepare for general elections on a much more frequent basis – provided of course that they can be arranged by civil servants of an acceptable standard.  
**Nigel Jordan**  
_Crowthorne, Berkshire_

Reading the letters expressing different points of view on Jack Vettriano () I was reminded of an old cartoon that shows two people in a gallery looking at John Constable’s The Hay Wain, with one asking the other: “It’s a lovely picture, but what does it mean?”  
**Peter Philpott**  
_Patrick Brompton, North Yorkshire_

Laura has a pleasing voice () reminds me of my brief stint in the school choir. I lasted until they worked out where that “bloody row” was coming from.  
**Ian Garner**  
_Oxenhope, West Yorkshire_

I felt a tinge of sadness that King Charles chose a cover of Little Eva’s song, The Loco-Motion, rather than the original ().  
**Linda Rhead**  
_Hampton, London_

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