There will be a lot of civil servants out of a job then!
> Some civil service networks have been criticised for trumpeting controversial views. For example, a newsletter from the Ministry of Justice’s Gender Equality Network claimed that “in many societies, the gender binary is a product and tool of colonialism and white supremacy”.
Come again…?
Love that the turning point in that chart is the EU Referendum, as if it wasn’t screamed from the rooftops that we would 1) need staff to deliver Brexit, and 2) need to repatriate roles from the EU (such as a more borders and HMRC staff and a whole trade department).
Yes, we need more civil servants. We were told it and we voted for it.
I thought the big problem over the decades was INactivists in the Civil Service…..
I am becoming slightly more convinced, e.g. this article, that one of the new bullshit narratives is to blame the civil service for the ineptitude of the conservatives. It’s immigrants, it’s woke people, it’s lgbtq+, it’s the civil service.
All part of the “woke conspiracy” narrative. It’s not that the Tories are terrible people who’ve spent the last 13 years f***ing the country, it’s all those lefty lawyers, do-gooder social workers and activist civil servants.
Did he just say he wants the civil service to ignore the rule of law?
There’s arguably too much activism in the work place in general…this just rings of…score settling tbh.
I’d almost believe it if the interview wasn’t with a man who looks like a dodgy estate agent…
Let’s not be unjust though; let’s have a flick through his pre-political CV.
Accenture
Glaxo Wellcome
BP
*aaaaaand…*
Post Office
Sounds perfectly trustworthy to me. S/
“Activists”, I wonder whether this means people in unions.
Kemi Badenoch pushing this crackdown with the usual office politics interference bullshit. I dont believe the civil service is damaged by having “activists” involved, it just means they give a shit about the society they help craft institutions for. To create systems for the UK’s most marginalised members is entirely valid and many of them wouldve been recruited on this basis.
Purity purging the office is a horrible answer to this, all it does is boot people out who will be replaced by university students with more or less the same activist ethos but try to scare them into following more extreme policies by setting the ostensible narrative that they are just cogs in a Tory machine.
They are selected for their adaptable thinking and carrying out the government business in a manner as effective as humanly possible, their qualifications testify to that and seeking to boot them with cliquey appointments in their place is an additional step towards inflexible and ineffective government
Further cynicism would lead me to believe the Tories are booting their civil servants so it damages the Labour government to come when they only have a greenhorn adminstration to work with and an entrenched upper management system established by the Tories.
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There will be a lot of civil servants out of a job then!
> Some civil service networks have been criticised for trumpeting controversial views. For example, a newsletter from the Ministry of Justice’s Gender Equality Network claimed that “in many societies, the gender binary is a product and tool of colonialism and white supremacy”.
Come again…?
Love that the turning point in that chart is the EU Referendum, as if it wasn’t screamed from the rooftops that we would 1) need staff to deliver Brexit, and 2) need to repatriate roles from the EU (such as a more borders and HMRC staff and a whole trade department).
Yes, we need more civil servants. We were told it and we voted for it.
I thought the big problem over the decades was INactivists in the Civil Service…..
I am becoming slightly more convinced, e.g. this article, that one of the new bullshit narratives is to blame the civil service for the ineptitude of the conservatives. It’s immigrants, it’s woke people, it’s lgbtq+, it’s the civil service.
All part of the “woke conspiracy” narrative. It’s not that the Tories are terrible people who’ve spent the last 13 years f***ing the country, it’s all those lefty lawyers, do-gooder social workers and activist civil servants.
Did he just say he wants the civil service to ignore the rule of law?
There’s arguably too much activism in the work place in general…this just rings of…score settling tbh.
I’d almost believe it if the interview wasn’t with a man who looks like a dodgy estate agent…
Let’s not be unjust though; let’s have a flick through his pre-political CV.
Accenture
Glaxo Wellcome
BP
*aaaaaand…*
Post Office
Sounds perfectly trustworthy to me. S/
“Activists”, I wonder whether this means people in unions.
Kemi Badenoch pushing this crackdown with the usual office politics interference bullshit. I dont believe the civil service is damaged by having “activists” involved, it just means they give a shit about the society they help craft institutions for. To create systems for the UK’s most marginalised members is entirely valid and many of them wouldve been recruited on this basis.
Purity purging the office is a horrible answer to this, all it does is boot people out who will be replaced by university students with more or less the same activist ethos but try to scare them into following more extreme policies by setting the ostensible narrative that they are just cogs in a Tory machine.
They are selected for their adaptable thinking and carrying out the government business in a manner as effective as humanly possible, their qualifications testify to that and seeking to boot them with cliquey appointments in their place is an additional step towards inflexible and ineffective government
Further cynicism would lead me to believe the Tories are booting their civil servants so it damages the Labour government to come when they only have a greenhorn adminstration to work with and an entrenched upper management system established by the Tories.