They don't give a toss about winning support from anyone. They're civil servants. They have a job for life. They don't have to stay in profit or be efficient. They'll get paid at the end of the month, every month of their career, until they retire, and then they'll get their protected pension, indexed to RPI, forever, no worries.
You and I pay for that, and we will carry on paying for it, even though we wonder whether we will still be employed this time next year, even though we worry about our decreasing and threatened pensions.