Is The Civil Service Deliberately Making Brexit Look Bad?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/913093/Brexit-news-European-Union-EU-UK-latest-deal-referendum-vote

[cassa333]

Well is it the case the outside the EU the civil servents will have to work harder?

Maybe they are just trying to make sure their gold plated pensions are easy to come by.!!

[david small]

Yes, blindingly obvious.

[Kromovaracun]

No, it manages that all on its own.

[TheChair]

Is your mirror trying to make you look stupid?

[jno]

more traitors! They're everywhere!

[Togo]

//Mr Davis said he told the Exiting the European Union Select Committee last December, also noting every forecast about the post-Brexit period "has been wrong"//

Well that question is answered......You know the one....."How can they get every economic forecast wrong"? Answer.....because they want to, and can.

[Gromit]

// Is the Civil Service... //

Each Department of Government has Civil Servants working for it. Apparently Chancellor Hammond wants a soft Brexit so his Department is working to ensure that. The Civil Servants are working for their master, so it is grossly unfair to blame them. If they didn’t do as they were told, they would be sacked.

And then from one Department you then conclude that The Service is against Brexit.

Just a Conspiracy theory not based on any facts.

[Prudie]

Agree with Gromit, the CS do as they're told. Want to add because it's still bandied about, as anyone who works in civil service knows, the days of gold plated pensions and jobs for life are long gone.

[Gromit]

As with all coniracies, it started with a lie

// A Brexit minister has apologised in Parliament for comments he made about the independence of the civil service.
Steve Baker said he had been told Treasury officials were deliberately trying to influence policy in favour of staying in the EU customs union.
Charles Grant, an EU policy expert said to have been the source of the claims, has since denied telling Mr Baker this. //

[youngmafbog]

I would not be at all surprised if certain elements of the civil service had an agenda as in any organisation.