In case there was any doubt that civil servants are biased against Conservative administrations and prefer Labour policies, a series of Guardian columns by a Labour superfan civil servant should put the matter to rest. Michael Deacon has more in the Telegraph.
Anyone who dares to suggest that civil servants hate the Tories is invariably accused of paranoia. Such airy dismissals, however, are going to be rather harder to sustain following the latest in a series of columns for the Guardian by an anonymous Whitehall figure.
Its headline: ‘After Years of Being Gaslit by Government, We Civil Servants Can Breathe Again Under Labour’.
Underneath, the author reveals how jubilant he or she is about the election result – because, for example, “the Rwanda policy and other fatbergs of accumulated economic and political dysfunction” can now be “dissolved”. This glee, it seems, is shared by many of the author’s colleagues. One civil servant is quoted as saying: “I’ve never been so glad to see the back of a Government.” Another expresses relief that “I won’t face each day wondering what nasty bit of policy we’ll be told to enact… I feel professionally revitalised knowing that the adults are back in charge.”
What’s striking about these comments is not just that they fall quite a long way short of neutrality. It’s that they were expressed at all. Clearly these civil servants felt confident they could voice such views to colleagues without getting in trouble. Which means they knew their colleagues felt the same.
Still, this will have come as little surprise to anyone who has read this anonymous civil servant’s columns before. In 2020, someone used an official civil service Twitter account to call the then Tory government “arrogant and offensive. Can you imagine having to work with these truth twisters?” In response, the anonymous columnist filed an article headlined, ‘The Rogue Civil Service Tweet Spoke for Most of Us’. This “brave heretic”, we learnt, “has already become something of a civil service legend… The resistance continues.”
Curiously, an investigation by the Cabinet Office never did identify the culprit.
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The civil service is as Independent as the Independent newspaper was when it launched all those years ago. Pay lip-service to the concepts of objectivity and independence then gaslight anyone who points out the reality.
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The investigations into the failed murder of Donald Trump are about to begin. My money is on Cheatle being the first to go.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/15/secret-service-will-privately-brief-lawmakers-on-trump-assassination-attempt-00168240
No argument from me for apportioning blame where it’s rightly due. I think if she isn’t sacked then that tells you all you need to know about just how rotten and corrupt the organization is. But remember, she didn’t hire herself, so if somebody deliberately overlooked much higher quality, more experienced candidates that would prove more competent at this job in order to give preferential treatment to some DEI tick box gonk-lady then they need taken to task and booted out too. It will be interesting to get more answers about the whole debacle though. Like why the hell they had snipers stationed *inside* the building the gunman climbed on, but not outside, where he could at least have been seen. I mean, even I would’ve thought of that;
”Unbelievable. Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle now admits that the USSS knew the building 125 yards from President Trump was a huge vulnerability, but didn’t station an agent there because it had a “sloped roof.”
“That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof. And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside.”
”She also continues to resist calls that she step down over the incident, even while taking responsibility for her agency.
‘The buck stops with me,’ she said.
‘It was unacceptable,’ she told ABC. ‘And it’s something that shouldn’t happen again.’
This is “safetyism” run amok at its absolute worst.
Cheatle shouldn’t be trusted with protecting the food court of a shopping mall, let alone the US president. She should resign or be fired IMMEDIATELY.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13639613/Secret-Service-director-wasnt-roof-gunman.html
And no question that whoever was responsible for employing Cheatle must go also.
The arguments for the ‘sloping roof,’ what’s the saying…” you can’t be serious.”
What is most disturbing in all this is that surely to God the perps must have known all the mistakes would have been spotted. Or perhaps the end justified the means, take out The Donald at any cost.
If Trump makes it to the White House alot of people will rightly come down with twitchy bottom syndrome. Good.
Interesting she didn’t seem to have a safety issue about the roof the snipers who killed the gunman were on. Has she got a thing about angles and gradients or something? She could even have positioned snipers or local police officers on the ground outside the building, if it had already been deemed a high risk building. Where’s the issue with that? Desperate times…when you just say weaselly words, grovel a lot and hope it pays off;
https://x.com/davM1A1/status/1813218861937725474
https://www.globalresearch.ca/thoughts-near-assassination/5862756
Further commentary on the Trump murder attempt.
Why are the security services being praised by all ex Presidents, including Trump, for what by any stretch was abject failure or more probably intentional failure?
She should be sacked not only for being a completely useless DEI appointee, but also for being so thick and unimaginative that the sloping roof excuse was the best she could think of. If you’re going to lie make it at least half-believable.
Yep, I agree. There’s members of her team and the local police force that need closely looking at too because there was just failure after failure identified. Multiple chances to stop this gunman were either missed or ignored before he got the chance to even climb the roof for the final time with his rifle.
Maybe it’s me overthinking it but I have my doubts this ‘Cheeto’ Cheatle woman is the brains behind this operation, which is looking more and more like an inside job the more details that are revealed daily, so I think the orders to allow this assassination attempt to happen, including not securing that building appropriately, came from way higher than this gonk lady, who is the one who will take the fall publicly, but the people pulling the strings remain in situ. Probably because the string-pullers are actually the Biden mob. ‘Cheeto’ just gets publicly crucified and thrown under the bus. The only way Trump is going to stay alive is if he has a legit and shit-hot security team not remotely linked to the psycho Left.
100%.👍
Seconded.
Now look at Trump’s bodyguards. This should keep a few people happy…Do you think he told the other ones, ”You’re fired!”? 😉
https://x.com/Motabhai012/status/1813218535034003844
That’s more like it. 👍
Yes, very strange indeed. And I’d never think of Trump as the sort who could be manipulated into saying something he didn’t want to say. He strikes me as a ”tell it like it is” kind of person. It makes no sense whatsoever. The plot thickens…
But this here is one of the main questions I want an answer to. I was even thinking, despite the fact we know it’s right that Cheatle go, because she has to take responsibility for the epic failure of her team that she was in charge of ( and there will be individuals within that team who either effed up deliberately or due to incompetence ) but what if she got orders from above to let this gunman fire first or not secure that building properly, leaving it wide open for assassin guy? So she took orders but with or without her prior knowledge was carved out ahead of time by her superiors to be the ‘fall guy’ for when her team fails ( deliberately ) to achieve their objective on that day. Just a theory;
”Secret Service had snipers INSIDE the building the assassin used. They took pictures of him. They watched him pull out a range finder to get his exact distance to Trump. They radioed the Secret Service command post about the assassin.
They all knew he was there.
Who gave the order to do nothing until after the assassin shot Trump, killed an innocent man on that stage, and fired round after round after round after round?”
https://x.com/seanmdav/status/1813040324161196228
But as if it wasn’t bad enough that they knew the gunman was there and allowed him to shoot, they knew he was there for almost half an hour!! WTAF? 😮
No way was this guy worried about being caught. He wasn’t even trying to evade detection was he? I wonder why….And yet Trump was allowed to go on stage and remain there, despite the SS team and local police being well aware there was a gunman poised and waiting;
”Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, was spotted on the roof 26 minutes before the shooting occurred.
The FBI has confirmed that Crooks was seen by law enforcement members from the Allegheny County Police Department on the roof of a building with a clear sightline to the former president.
Despite being alerted to his presence, authorities failed to confront him, allowing him to remain hidden for nearly 30 minutes before he opened fire on Trump and the crowd.
The shocking new allegations have raised questions about how Crooks was able to evade detection and carry out the attack, which left Trump wounded and a member of the crowd dead.
A sniper even took a picture of the suspect with a rangefinder and radioed to the command post before the Trump assassination attempt, CBS reports.
Crooks was on local police and Secret Service’s radar for nearly a half hour before the shooting attempt, but he kept “disappearing” before he climbed on the roof.”
https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1813086505663144209
After years of security expertise built up to this sham, something very suspicious about the whole affair. I enquired into a Business for sale once, a Chauffeur Business, collecting diplomates. The owner told me M16 would look into where your great grandfarther is buried that is the level of security. Another place a mate was doing some sort of waste removal in a 7.5 tone lorry, some military place in the West country he went to was told he could get shot at if he drives his vehicle off track.
I agree Ron. The whole thing stinks. The corruption is off the scale. No way are they going to allow Trump to win this election. It is definitely going to be scuppered.
Ducks can swim, too.
Ask yourself why, after 14yrs of government and an 80 seat majority the Tories didn’t prune it back to the bone. The same reason they did nothing about the BBC, immigration, high taxes, (insert your favourite here …), …
It suited the grandees. Make noises, wring your hands, do nothing.
This is where Reform comes in.
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Yes but let’s hope they don’t make a pigs ear of it. I was concerned with what I read about Ben Habib the other day. I hope all of that blows over as he is one of the very few politicians that I can appreciate and he is perfect for Reform
And the Party Whips, thought they weren’t going down that sleezy road.
Wait till they get their electricity bills under Miliband. That will most certainly wipe the smug off their faces.
Inflation busting pay rises and WFH special allowances should cover it.
Drain the Whitehall swamp!
https://order-order.com/
This is a belter. GP’s are to stop prescribing in order to save the planet. You couldn’t make it up.
Wokery off the charts.
“Flagship recommendations for doctors to “slow the pace of climate change” include reducing prescriptions, cutting blood tests, and reducing diagnostic imaging. What’s the point, seeing as we are all about to be eviscerated in climate judgement day anyway…”
Something tells me this won’t last long once Big Pharma starts flexing.
The prescription advice in this Green Toolkit is actually pretty generic, the evil bit is the Communicating with patients about climage change section. It basically requests that doctors target patients believed to be particularly vulnerable to health scare stories (the frail and elderly, young children, pregnant women and those with pre-existing long-term health conditions) and terrorize them with made-up stories how climate change will make their lives terribly worse in future. A specific example that’s given is telling people that ICE cars are very bad for their health and that they should carry inhalers, avoid busy roads and wear masks outside whenever possible.
Considering that average life expectancy nowadays is much greater than it was during past times when all this horrible climate change wasn’t yet happening, that’s outright evil. Doctors shouldn’t try to make eldery patients feel scared and miserable by telling them invented stories about the future.
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Isn’t the starting point for good medical care…
First do no harm?
It’s all a matter of proper interpretation: First do … No! Harm!
What a bunch of c*nts.
They areb90% socialist scum. Most are also poorly educated, shouldn’t have been at university, graduates.
This is unprofessional¹ and undemocratic² to the highest degree and the people who made these statements need to be removed from their posts because of this.
¹ I get paid to make computers do stuff. I’m not always convinced that what I’m supposed to make them do is really a good idea and sometimes, have even proved right with that. However, I’m not the person responsible for making such decisions and it’s my professional duty do whatever I’m supposed to do to the best of my abilites regardless of my private opinions about it, because that’s what I’m getting paid for.
² It’s undemocratic because these people are appointed and not elected. Yet, they apparently believe to have a right to “resist” policy decisions they disapprove of made by the body elected to do so — parliament. In order words, they reserve a right to disobey the law of the land when it suits them because they have the power to.
I wish ordinary voters thought more like that on your last point, citing the Magna Carta, Bill of Rights etc. We will see this play out with the Windmills that are already here according to someone I chatted to.