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Dominic Raab Is Toast – With 24 Civil Servants Complaining Of His Bullying Behaviour
If Sunak doesn’t get his act together, he could be next.
If you don’t want to listen to the complete video, listen to Sunak answering the question (asked 5 times) whether he was aware of any complaints against Raab before he appointed him as Deputy Prime Minister (from 2:45 - 4:00). It is reminiscent of Paxman asking Michael Howard if he threatened to overrule Derek Lewis on Newsnight.
If you don’t want to listen to the complete video, listen to Sunak answering the question (asked 5 times) whether he was aware of any complaints against Raab before he appointed him as Deputy Prime Minister (from 2:45 - 4:00). It is reminiscent of Paxman asking Michael Howard if he threatened to overrule Derek Lewis on Newsnight.
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//If I was to shout at a subordinate ‘Go get me a *** car’ and call a person ‘stupid and naive’ – I might reasonably expect to find HR questioning my behaviour, and possibly ordering me to undergo some sort of anger management training.//
Depends who you worked for and how sensitive your subordinates were. In my line of work, it would simply be termed "robust management" and certainly not bullying. But my working life has been spent doing what's required by my managers and others whom I am managing doing what's required by me (occasionally with the instruction ending "JFDI"). We don't manage by committee. That way things get done.
And, of course, all this assumes that the events involving Mr Raab were as alleged.
Depends who you worked for and how sensitive your subordinates were. In my line of work, it would simply be termed "robust management" and certainly not bullying. But my working life has been spent doing what's required by my managers and others whom I am managing doing what's required by me (occasionally with the instruction ending "JFDI"). We don't manage by committee. That way things get done.
And, of course, all this assumes that the events involving Mr Raab were as alleged.
Allegations of bullying against Raab have existed since before he was an MP.
// In 2007, Mr Raab worked as chief of staff to the Tory MP David Davis. A woman – who was named at the time but would rather not be identified now – left her job in that office in 2007, in what seems to have been unhappy circumstances. She received a payoff and signed an agreement binding her and her parents not to talk about what took place.
In January, the Mail on Sunday published a story alleging that she was bullied by Mr Raab, which he denies. This week, the publisher applied in court to be allowed either to see the confidentiality agreement, or to interview the woman, known as E, and/or her parents, believing that their evidence will prove that what it published is true.
E has said she is prepared to speak to them, though she would rather not, because she does not want the whole matter dragged up. She has also had a letter from Mr Raab's solicitors, warning her that there will be "certain consequences" if she breaks the signed confidentiality agreement, adding: "It is likely that at the very least you will be required to repay the sum you were paid in consideration for the confidentiality obligations."
This might sound to those of us without legal training as if Mr Raab, who so readily condemned secrecy when practised by the Strasbourg judges, has been very keen to make E keep quiet, which is what Associated Newspapers' legal team claimed. But Mr Justice Tugendhat ruled that "there is no evidence that she has been gagged". The confidentiality agreement holds, at least for now, and the case is expected to come to court in 2012. //
Raab won that libel case.
// In 2007, Mr Raab worked as chief of staff to the Tory MP David Davis. A woman – who was named at the time but would rather not be identified now – left her job in that office in 2007, in what seems to have been unhappy circumstances. She received a payoff and signed an agreement binding her and her parents not to talk about what took place.
In January, the Mail on Sunday published a story alleging that she was bullied by Mr Raab, which he denies. This week, the publisher applied in court to be allowed either to see the confidentiality agreement, or to interview the woman, known as E, and/or her parents, believing that their evidence will prove that what it published is true.
E has said she is prepared to speak to them, though she would rather not, because she does not want the whole matter dragged up. She has also had a letter from Mr Raab's solicitors, warning her that there will be "certain consequences" if she breaks the signed confidentiality agreement, adding: "It is likely that at the very least you will be required to repay the sum you were paid in consideration for the confidentiality obligations."
This might sound to those of us without legal training as if Mr Raab, who so readily condemned secrecy when practised by the Strasbourg judges, has been very keen to make E keep quiet, which is what Associated Newspapers' legal team claimed. But Mr Justice Tugendhat ruled that "there is no evidence that she has been gagged". The confidentiality agreement holds, at least for now, and the case is expected to come to court in 2012. //
Raab won that libel case.
Funny how one of hymie's propaganda videos gets all the lefties juices going. So he upset a few snowflake civil servants! They need a kick up the April if you ask me. Can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. Go back to St Tony's Tory lite troupe and no doubt some of them weren't all fluffy bunny either. Nothing to see here.
well the trouble is that civil servants need to be willing to work with you if you want to be a minister... and raab's behaviour is bad enough that many civil servants do not want to work with him... and therefore he can't actually do his job very well
it's simple politics really... it is no wonder he has failed so dismally at every post he has been given
it's simple politics really... it is no wonder he has failed so dismally at every post he has been given
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