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The civil servant

Take it from me: there is no civil service ‘activist’ plot – just Tory ministers who must learn to behave

Former deputy prime minister Dominic Raab leaves 10 Downing Street, London, 18 April 2023.
Former deputy prime minister Dominic Raab leaves 10 Downing Street, London, 18 April 2023. Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA

So, exactly who is making the UK apparently ungovernable? Is it bullying, psychotic ministers intent on stoking the culture wars until Gary Lineker, the BBC, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission and every other woke-sucking, electorate-hating public institution is consumed by its righteous flames?

Or is it, more specifically, us “over-unionised”, “activist” civil servants – who, despite being a “very small minority” of milquetoast snowflakes, are still somehow capable of orchestrating the ruthless defenestration of Dominic Raab, Steve Barclay and any other poor minister who dares to actually get something – anything – done?

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