Priti's, 'reign Of Terror'

[Khandro]

More of it I say, do you agree?

[Khandro]

ichi; If you watched the YouTube, - which you didn't.. you would see that isn't about an opinion, it begins by showing the Civil Service Code on Impartiality, which in order to get their lucrative jobs, comfortable working conditions & excellent pensions, paid from the public purse, they have to sign up to.

A former civil servant then gives an account of how, on a mammoth scale, they perform in an extremely partial manner in contradiction of what they are there to do.

Can I then assume that you find this culpable behaviour, verging on criminality, acceptable?

There is nothing left-wing or right wing in the video, it is a statement of fact.

[youngmafbog]

Well she is upsetting the right people on hereso she must be on the right track.

Carry on Priti, drain the civil service swamp. Anyone not on the Metropolitan liberal left will back you.

[jim360]

What a pathetic way of assessing success. She'd be on the "right track" if she were persuading people to agree with her, not antagonising people you don't like.

[jim360]

Although, of course, agreement isn't mandatory in the Civil Service -- but even then, since her word is ultimately what goes, then the trick is still not to antagonise in the process of winning the argument.

[youngmafbog]

Sheer rot jim.

This bunch of metropolitan lefties (CC) will be antagonised unless they get their own way - and you know it.

But then you want them to get their own way dont you?

[ichkeria]

The video is a mishmash of nonsense. At best one person’s opinion.

He can’t even tell the difference between purple and burgundy :-)

[Khandro]

ichi; There seem to be a lot of people talking 'nonsense', in your view, now from the Telegraph today;

Theresa Villiers has claimed that the "spiteful" leaks about Priti Patel are sexist, amid reports the Home Secretary has ordered an inquiry into the briefings.

The former environment secretary said she was "sick of spiteful briefings against women in high public office" and called on those responsible to "stop it".

Media reports that Ms Patel is distrusted by intelligence chiefs and bullied her staff have been dismissed as "false" by the government.

When asked if there was an element of misogyny at play, Ms Villiers replied: "Yes, I do. I think that there are clearly people who are out to damage the Home Secretary."

Home Office Minister James Brokenshire said there is a "huge frustration across the Home Office about some of the false assertions that have been made publicly".

Mr Brokenshire said some of the leaks were "absolute nonsense" and insisted his boss is not a bully, saying: "Yes, she’s demanding, but in the role you have to be."

[ichkeria]

There is a briefing war going on and it needs to be stopped as it’s doing huge damage both to the Home Office and the Civil Service.

[ichkeria]

Predictably Patel’s friends and political allies - who’ve probably never worked under her - will leap to her defence. Entirely understandably.

That’s not the same as the Akkad fellow’s YouTube ravings.

[jim360]

I don't want anything other than decorum.

I mean, yes, I regret the policy directions taken under the current government, but they're a more or less inevitable consequence of the 2019 election. But you can deliver on that election whilst not being a prick about it.

[jim360]

Put another way: the Tories have the right to drive through their policies, and the Civil Service has the duty to implement them. The Civil Service also has the right to advise, and the government the duty to pay attention to that advice where appropriate. And all of that can continue without the bullying.

Just because you're incapable, ymb, of separating policy from behaviour doesn't mean anybody else is. "How many people I've *** off" is a terrible and pathetic measure of success, and the fact that you're using it as a yardstick speaks volumes.

[ToraToraTora]

jim: "Put another way: the Tories have the right to drive through their policies, and the Civil Service has the duty to implement them." - have you told them that? They are legendarily, deliberately bad at implementing things they don't agree with.

[ichkeria]

Are they?

The fact is government is damned difficult. For lots of reasons. Getting policies through can be a struggle and I wonder if the current crop in the cabinet realise that.
Declaring war on your staff is not a good idea I’d say, if that is what it is.

[jim360]

I'm fairly sure the Civil Service knows this, and I'm equally sure your complaints otherwise are conspiratorial BS -- or just getting your excuses in early.

[cassa333]

It’s amazing what names you get called and accusations levelled against you when you are shaking up the tree.

I have no idea if she is a bully or if the ‘resistance’ is at work.

[MrAnonymous]

Sargon of Akkad/Carl Benjamin - what a nice chap. https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/ukip-candidate-carl-benjamin-accused-jewish-people-of-identity-politics-over-the-holocaust-1.483446

[Khandro]

'Tim Stanley won support from the Question Time audience last night after claiming there is a “partisan political briefing operation’ taking place against Priti Patel, and some of the accusations are arising from civil servants who object to the Government’s wide-sweeping reforms – many of which are being led by the Home Office. Counter to the pundit class, the public seems to be rallying behind her…

His attack coincides with a letter in the Telegraph today – signed by 100 Patel allies from business, politics and academia (including the former charity commission chief, William Shawcross) – denouncing the bullying accusations as ‘smears’; saying when working with the Home Secretary she “never crossed the line or lost her temper”, and is the target of a “campaign of gossip, smears and malicious gossip by anonymous individuals who have failed to produce any verifiable facts.”

Earlier in the week, Guido asked whether anyone will be brave enough to go on record at some point. It seems over 100 defendants have now taken up his challenge – versus ZERO attackers…' [my caps]

Maybe ichi would like to be the first?

[Khandro]

In 1980, when she had been in office for a year, Margaret Thatcher experienced two contrasting events. On 5 May, on her orders, the SAS stormed the Iranian embassy in Princes Gate, London, rescuing the hostages held there and killing their terrorist captors. The next day, she gave a dinner at 10 Downing Street for all the permanent secretaries (i.e. head civil servants) of the government departments. She was trying to galvanise change with a message of “You and I can beat the system.”

It was a rotten evening. The mandarins resisted, telling her, in effect, “We ARE the system.” Mrs Thatcher turned to her Cabinet Secretary and whispered, “They’re all against me. I can feel it.” The contrast between the can-do SAS “boys in black” and the can’t-do “men in grey” was painful to her.

The Home Secretary, Priti Patel, is the greatest Thatcher admirer in the present Cabinet. She will be nurturing similar feelings today. A woman outsider trying to bring about serious change in matters such as post-Brexit immigration, and to see through roughly a third of the legislation coming before Parliament this year, she is facing obstruction from officials. Indeed, her situation is worse than Mrs Thatcher’s, because she is also facing character assassination .......cont.

Charles Moore in Today's Telegraph

[Khandro]

It would appear Priti isn't about to 'go' anywhere;

https://order-order.com/2020/03/09/tory-grassroots-sticking-patel/

[Old_Geezer]

An aggressive approach may be appropriate but if excessive such that others cause to complain and win the case/get compensated/whatever it sounds like the accusations have some substance. Bullying is beyond the acceptable line, especially when it comes to one's own staff. It appears she needs to reconsider her approach.