Britain used to have a civil service that could exasperate people, especially those who wanted stuff done quickly, but which was once something to be proud of. We could at least be proud that our civil servants were less bent than those in other countries and that there was some semblance of a culture of impartiality and the giving of impartial advice to Ministers.
A lot has changed and not many will think, for the better. We now have a civil service that has become activist and, dominated as they are by groups such as Stonewall, has drowned the last vestiges of impartiality as thoroughly as is drowned the wreck of the Titanic.
One of the candidates for the leadership of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, speaking at a free speech promotion event, told of her ‘battles’ to get sensible rules through a civil service that has completely sold itself to the gender identity ideology cult. Ms Badenoch said that the Civil Servants did not want her to push for construction rules that would require buildings to be constructed with separate lavatories for men and women.
From what I can gather from what Ms Badenoch has said is that Britain has a problem with the Civil Service becoming heavily penetrated by activist groups. These groups are aided by a Civil Service culture that has been more politicised in recent decades and has brought about a situation where the Civil Servants attending to the Minister feel able to flaunt their observance of the cult of trans. The Civil Service is now so politicised that some Civil Servants feel that they must attempt to obstruct a minister’s wish to bring in a policy that would be popular with many ordinary Britons but not so popular with the intolerant cult of trans activists.
This is not a good situation for Britain to be in. The Civil Service should be impartial advisors and administrators and not usurp the job of elected Ministers. This is a situation where I would have the same grave concerns about Civil Service politicisation were it an elected left leaning government whose policies were being obstructed by a reactionary and politically hostile Civil Service.
Our Civil Service is a mess and cleaning up the mess and recreating the professional and impartial Civil Service as envisaged when it was first reformed after the Northcote-Trevelyan Report, is going to take a long time. It will also have to take place under a government that is wiling to take action to get the Civil Service back to what was wanted by Northcote-Trevelyan, which was guided by a culture of impartiality, integrity and probity. When I see the wokery being promoted around Whitehall these days it’s probably reasonable to think that probity as well as integrity and impartiality has left the building as far as the Civil Service is concerned.
The ‘Battle of the Bogs’ as outlined by Ms Badenoch might seem to many to be a minor issue, it does illustrate just how bad the woke rottenness is afflicting the Civil Service at the sort of higher levels that deal day to day with Ministers. This rottenness is being paid for by every taxpaying Briton, many of whom are struggling to keep their heads above water and it is a rottenness, with its noisome stench of political bias, that needs to be cleared out. The luxury beliefs of senior Civil Servants, whether that be about race, gender, sexuality or whatever, are things that no sane country that wants an efficient administration system, should indulge.
