“Activist” civil servants? The truth is, we’re not that organised. Yet this absurd, toxic take on how the civil service works somehow manages to overlook the vaccine rollout, the cost of living support package and the response to the Ukraine crisis as recent examples, according to the Institute for Government’s 2022 report, of civil servants “working under clear ministerial direction … with a focus on action and making change happen”. The very carefully choreographed narrative from these notable truth-tellers ( brilliantly debunked recently by Simon McDonald, who himself worked under Raab and quickly dismissed the conspiracy theorists) is that the civil service “blob” is hellbent on a campaign to frustrate and undermine government policy. At least, that’s what assorted Raab-fluffers – including Jacob Rees-Mogg, Conservative peer Lord Marland (who told the BBC there was “almost a conspiracy by the civil service”) and the Emperor Palpatine of civil service reform, Francis Maude (more on him in a bit) – are desperately trying to get the public to believe.
Or is it you, dear reader, the “ Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati” with your declinist, gloomster schadenfreude, bringing the country to its knees?
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