Readers will remember that last week I posted twice on how the government were letting it be known that the civil service had let badly them down because they – the civil service – had not stopped the government from carrying out the government’s policy.
The most recent example has seen government sources let it be known that the Cabinet Secretary has not been doing his job because he allowed the Prime Minister to carry out the Prime Minister’s idea of having a public inquiry into the media under Leveson. Government sources say that it is the civil service’s job to stop Cabinet Ministers from doing stupid things and if the civil service don’t resolutely stand in the way of government doing stupid things then you can’t blame the government – you have to blame the civil service.
