For a new Cabinet Secretary.
At last someone has pointed the finger at Sir Gus O'Donnell, Blair's man at the head of the politicised, rotting remains of the civil service.
Despite the wholly understandable expression of relief on his face as he welcomed David Cameron into Number Ten as Prime Minister at the opening of the ANL (After New Labour) era, Sir Gus cannot escape censure for presiding over the politicisation, emasculation, ennervation, reduction of intellectual rigour and enslavement to political fashion of the civil service resulting in its corporate corruption (sic) under Blair and Brown.
It would once have been impossible for senior Foreign Office officials to draft and circulate an insulting memorandum about a visiting head of state which, dismissed merely as 'foolish' by their superiors, disgraced the entire service, humiliated the nation and sent the entire civil and foreign service into a reputation-salvage operation which will continue for years. That those responsible were not dismissed summarily is or at least would once have been astonishing and is symptomatic of the extent of the corruption of of public service ethics.
All this is O'Donnell's responsibility, as Cabinet Secretary and head of the Permanent Secretaries Management Group.
It is time for someone to hand the man the Black Spot.
Sir Gus cannot escape censure for presiding over the politicisation, emasculation, ennervation, reduction of intellectual rigour and enslavement to political fashion of the civil service resulting in its corporate corruption (sic) under Blair and Brown.
ReplyDeleteSums it up nicely.