Dominic Raab’s political assassination by snowflake civil servants is profoundly dangerous
Raabed out
DOMINIC Raab’s political assassination by snowflake civil servants is profoundly dangerous.
It gives the Whitehall Remainer blob clinching proof that they can continue to fail the public with impunity and, with a little co-ordination, pick off any Minister demanding they shape up.
Better still if he or she is a Brexiteer.
It is absurd, based on the Tolley report, to pretend Raab was a serial bully.
The evidence is all but non-existent.
Almost all the claims — leaked for months, exaggerated and treated as fact by a breathless broadcast media — were dismissed.
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Raab is described as diligent, focused, principled and highly intelligent.
At no point did he shout, swear, throw things or intentionally bully anyone.
Some of his accusers never even met him.
Raab was “convicted” only of failing to be sufficiently gentle when replacing one blundering Brexit negotiator.
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Once, he told officials their work was “woeful”.
Well, diddums.
Of course all staff should be treated fairly and properly . . . but the workplace is not a crèche.
In a Government department with vast reach, manpower and a budget in the billions, the stakes are unusually high.
Performance is meant to be stellar.
Self-pity
Most private sector staff will recognise in Raab a typical boss who insists on high standards and is sometimes direct with under-performers and skivers.
Precisely what taxpayers would want from a Secretary of State working 14-hour days on their behalf to turn around a failing Whitehall department.
As one ex-MoJ official Raab criticised told The Sun: “That’s the thing about Government. It matters. Spare me the self-pity from civil servants with no experience outside the public sector.”
Raab’s real mistake was vowing to quit if any findings went against him.
On the evidence alone, resigning is not justified.
Labour can spare us their crowing.
They embraced the vile Speaker John Bercow, knowing he was an ogre but hoping he would help them reverse Brexit.
An official report confirmed him as a “serial bully and liar”. That cannot remotely be levelled at Raab.
The Blob’s activists are already after more blood.
Witness new accusations against ex-Business Secretary Alok Sharma — for apparently contacting staff working from home, God help us.
Is it any wonder, up against this Whitehall wall of obstruction, that the Government can get so little done?
Gail farce
THE Sun, Twitter eco-warriors and Extinction Rebellion have found common ground.
We’re all agreed: Gail Bradbrook, who founded the hysterical doom cult of road-blocking vandals, is a “hypocrite”.
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The difference is that XR claim diesel-driving Bradbrook has no choice but to buy pricey fruit imported by Waitrose in landfill-only plastic wrapping.
What a load of rubbish. Quite literally.