Re: Senior Home Office official QUITS after vicious rows with Priti Patel
Originally Posted by
AnnieS
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You really don't like this guy.
Untrue.
I do not know him.
What I do not like is what he represents: a cabal of the self-serving and power-hungry that could not make it in the real world.
Originally Posted by
AnnieS
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As far as I am aware this role (appointed by Boris himself) isn't part of any ministerial department because it is meant to be outside of that system.There are no details of how this chap was initially appointed during Cameron's time or his contract etc.
If you want to carry on with your belief that at the time he quit he wasn't a civil servant, that's fine by me because it is your own ignorance that is on display by doing so.
Originally Posted by
AnnieS
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But the main thing is that you have absolutely no evidence of any bias on his part. Just a feeble unsubstantiated argument that because he was part of the civil service he is unable to be objective. If he was so rubbish why did Boris hang on to him?
Why do you keep ignoring what I am telling you?
It makes no difference what you or I think.
Only Boris can decide - and he has.
As for me, I don't need to open my eyes to see the sky.
I don't need to see what policies my MP approves of if he/she is Labour or Tory.
I don't need to be a genious to know that just as a Brexiteer supports Brexit or a Democrat supports Biden, so a long-term civil servant will support colleagues.
Again (because you insist on ignoring this) there is nothing independent about one civil servant investigating other civil servants.
Yet again (because again you ignore what I keep saying) these are not my thoughts alone as this from my earlier link states very clearly:
"Sir Alex Allan is proving the subject for negative briefings as well, with pro-government sources pointing out son-of-a-lord Allan is a former PPS to Blair and Major – “Independent my arse”. Allan’s resignation is hardly a great loss to the government either; in 2012, Labour MP Paul Flynn called on the mandarin to resign after it emerged that after five months in the well-paid role had yet to be called on to undertake an inquiry. His predecessor Sir Philip Mawer conducted just one investigation during his three-and-a-half-year tenure."
Why has Boris kept him on?
Because you can't easily get rid of a senior civil servant.
Instead you let them see the error of their ways and quit.