The Cabinet Secretary has been warned by senior civil servants of a “woke takeover of Whitehall” that risks “improperly” influencing Government policy. The Telegraph has the story.
Simon Case was told in a letter signed by 42 staff from 16 departments that ideology on gender promoted by trans activists has become embedded in the Civil Service in a “significant breach of impartiality”.
It says the concept that “everyone has a gender identity which is more important than their sex” is “treated as undisputed fact”.
Staff who dare to air gender-critical views – meaning they believe there are two biological sexes that cannot be changed – suffer “serious harassment” at work and live with a “pervasive fear” they will be victimised, the letter adds.
As a result, it says, the operation of government is being “distorted” and the authors plead for “urgent action to ensure that Civil Service impartiality is upheld, and freedom of belief is respected”.
The Civil Service’s head of human resources has met some of the signatories to discuss their concerns, but the letter – along with extensive evidence of the way highly contentious beliefs are promoted in numerous Whitehall departments – has been leaked to the Telegraph amid complaints that the response has been inadequate.
Gender-critical beliefs are protected by the Equality Act 2010, which also protects people against discrimination on the grounds of gender reassignment. The authors of the letter argue that only one of those rights is given any weight by the Civil Service.
The letter states: “Many of us have experienced some form of professional disadvantage because we do not believe that the concept of gender identity is meaningful, or that it is more important than sex. Several of us have been through stressful and intrusive employment disputes.”
If only we had a Conservative Government committed to a ‘war on woke’…
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Jacob Rees-Mogg responds to the revelations in the Telegraph, saying: ‘This obstruction and wokery is designed to stop democracy working.‘
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“Jacob Rees-Mogg responds to the revelations in the Telegraph, saying: ‘This obstruction and wokery is designed to stop democracy working.‘”
And which “democracy” might that be Mr Mogg? Democracy left these shores many years ago.
Simon Case’s department will now be preparing 42 golden parachutes for the signatories and once these reprobates have been cleared out it will be “as you were,” with extra doubling down.
Simon Case may in fact be a ‘Young Global Leader’ or out of Common Purpose but whatever the situation one of Klaus’s little helpers will now step in to steady the ship and keep it on course.
RT was warning of incoming Woke many years ago but it’s Russian so must be disinformation.
Rees-Mogg who was silent during the “covid” tyranny.
Indeed.
Fully on board with it. Said many times that LDs and Stabs would save the world. He is silent on the dead and injured.
But his bank account is probably loud and proud.
Sounds like a threat to national security. Where are the intelligence services in all of this?
Does this happen because they are a) ineffectual or b) it serves other interests that they align with?
Interesting that Peter Wilby, being a newspaper editor, didn’t undergo some scrutiny from the intelligence community – or maybe he did and it turned out he was the right man for the job.
I suspect the days of the security services taking any interest in media or public sector appointments was abandoned years ago.
Perhaps because the required mindset had been established.
“woke takeover of Whitehall” that risks “improperly” influencing Government policy.”
That ship sailed a long time ago!
Shock! Horror!
There is more bad news if only anyone in government wanted to look: the whole of Whitehall, quangos, education and all other government agencies has been taken over by big government, globalist socialists.
It would be instructive to have a report from someone like JRM to explain just how the civil service has come to decide on policy, appointments, spending and much else which Ministers claim to know nothing of. Is there no procedure for approving staff levels, recruitment policy, spending budgets and outturn.
“No, Minister” could be a working heading for a brand new dark comedy show, if anyone wants to create one. Plenty of ideas for the script – if anyone’s brave enough to sell it.
To whom might they sell it? There’s no channel that would show it.
And here is the big kill mechanism:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/un-president-approves-pandemic-declaration-privacy-experts-warn-digital-gulag/5833360
The idea of an impartial civil service that is an impartial instrument of government policy is a fantasy.
The only way to make sure people aren’t subjected to government policy that is hijacked by civil service ideology is to (a) have fewer government policies and (b) to have fewer civil servants. Far far fewer ideally.
Equally true in local government. Established Borough Solicitors and the like can be a hard nut to crack, e.g.
Do what US Presidents do- the entire previous White House political staff are fired and replaced by people selected by and loyal to the incoming president
Sadly those “loyal to the incoming president” all too often turn out to have their own agendas.
It seems to me the answer must lie in the legal relationship between ministers and civil service, management structures and reporting. In this way a PM should do very little policy work other than adjudicate between competing priorities on Ministers tasked with delivering government policy.
Reporting through the layers of civil service to Ministers and then to Cabinet should be regular and a key accountability issue. We shoul dnot be faced with complaints by Ministers about spending, recruiting or operational data – these should all have been seen on their dashboard long ago.
You mean to tell me there is someone called “Civil Service’s head of human resources” and he professed not to know about the issues raised until the letter was handed to him by his boss?
How many years did take for this blinding revelation tgo manifest itself?