The civil service is not politicised, we are told, though 'impartiality' as a value should be viewed with the same scepticism that we reserve for the BBC these days. The collectivist style of the incompetents who served up a social democratic Butskellite consensus before 1970 has returned to the fore.
There will be no need for a purge as an upper tier of rats seek a more profitable berth:
About eight or nine other permanent secretaries are also considering leaving, although Sir Gus O’Donnell, the Cabinet Secretary, has asked most of them to stay on until the end of the year. Many are nearing retirement age and others will be keen to get lucrative jobs in the private sector before they reach 60.
We have to pay for their mess, and they get to profit from their misdemeanours. These were the men at the helm when we sleep walked into disaster, carrying out the numpties' instructions.
It is time they gave back to the community for their crimes. Working on the front line at a job exchange, sweeping the floor in a hospital, filling out forms for the police...I am sure that there are many ways to achieve poetic justice for the indignities and troubles they have forced on us.