Thread by @terry_barker21

Lol! I think that Raab is the real scary one, but he/she? is no longer lined up to face the cameras as a Minister. And the Prime Minister is also awol, stunned by his own indecisiveness. Raab holds intemperate views about the #CivilServants of the UK conspiring against him.

https://twitter.com/josephinewell19/status/1649528574863392771

#DominicRaab is very cross. Tossed out on his ear by a cabal of conspiring servants, who dared to speak up against his ungentlemanly behaviour. Or correctly, tossed out by himself in response to outrageous allegations, now confirmed as bullying, about his Ministerial misconduct.

Our UK unwritten constitution has a lot to say about the role of civil servants in relation to the executive and the legislative roles of government. In brief they are independent impartial, knowledgeable, competent, tested, & trusted to do a good job.

The UK cvil servants are in a hierarchy with the Permanent Secretary at the top. And here permanent means just that, they are not to be turfed out or tossed out of the job on the whim of an incompetent PM or another of these closeted clowns.

The Tories have played fast and loose with our constitution ever since they merged with that bunch of fruitcakes, the kippers, now ennobled by ermine and Russian gold and hopefully locked away for good.

The @Conservatives broke the law, they disrespected the late Queen, they betrayed the country for #Brexit bribes, they stuffed the @HouseofLords2 with yes men&women, they ruined our reputation of good government and stability.

There is no doubt the UK civil service needs to be reformed, but not in response to this recent chaos. The cult of the generalist, the coddling of a privileged elite from public schools, the 19thC colonial legacies, all need to be eradicated.

The reform should be root and branch, but *not* as the disgraced Raab argues. Instead, it should recognise 1. Strength in diversity in members of the service, 2. Teamwork and communality are good, 3. Teams need continuity to preserve institutional memory, but they also need …

shocks to shake them out of complacency and lax habits, 4. Innovation and institutional learning with comparators across countries help to keep abreast of new & better ways of working with #Artificial_Intelligence 5. Entrance exams should be brought in line with best practice,…

… in business and other countries, combining specialisms with knowledge of English & maths, climate change, the science of money & the theory of value, & the evidence base of science, and the philosophy of government.

@hmtreasury in particular needs reform to become more of a #MinistryOfEconomicPlanning with overarching control of fiscal & monetary policies, and access to E3 simulation models providing projections of GDP, prices, GHGs and CO2 emissions.

#NetZero demands that policies & measures throughout government should be coordinated by such a @hmtreasury , a reformed Environment Ministry, to enable the global 1.5C target to remain within easy&low-cost reach within our lifetime.

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