Bloody hell, I thought it was just European unelected bureaucrats that Brexiters didn’t like. Turns out they don’t like UK ones either!
Bloody hell, I thought it was just European unelected bureaucrats that Brexiters didn’t like. Turns out they don’t like UK ones either!
... Jackal2 is spot on and you know nothing, Fat Lad. The CS looks after its own. It is an administration organisation and a master of not making decisions; in any case that's not its role. Governments are naive if they expect, having made a decision, that it will be carried out. The best CS mob is the MOD - masters of nothing except pouring money down drains. That is why we should have people who are commercially aware in key CS jobs. That of course doesn't fit the aims of the CS and CS union who wish to retain control without taking a decision. Labour are more naive than the Cons; as they tend to do as the CS tells them ... which usually results in more jobs for the CS boys. At least DC will have a go at getting the fat, lazy, scared CS moving; no one else will, it appears ...
An ugly pattern is emerging as PM Cummings and his megaphone deputy BJ plot the Tory-isation of all Civil Servant roles.
First Sedwill then on Sunday evening (when the world was asleep) came this one.
Security experts and opposition MPs on Monday condemned David Frost’s appointment as Boris Johnson’s national security adviser, arguing that his political status and lack of direct experience would undermine his effectiveness.
Lord Ricketts, the first person to be appointed to the role when it was created in 2010, said it was his job to provide “politically neutral advice” to the prime minister, allowing the politicians to “work out what they wanted to do”.
“David Frost has explicitly been appointed as a political appointee. So that is confusing the lines between civil service advice and the political, the party-political angle which ministers normally bring and that worries me,” the peer added.
Lord Wood of Anfield, a former foreign policy adviser to Gordon Brown, said all four previous national security advisers had been civil servants, and he argued their job was to coordinate security efforts across a range of ministries.
“In the area of national security, the considerations of the PM’s political fortunes need to be nowhere near the reasoning of the national security adviser,” Wood said.
“Being a political appointment means you have your eyes on the political consequences of actions, and the political motives of taking them in the first place.”