Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
Ex-top civil servant likens Tory Brexiters to snake oil sellers
O’Donnell said honesty and objectivity ran through the core of civil servants “like a stick of rock”, and the forecasts which came from Whitehall would have been made in good faith.
Civil servants “look at the evidence and we go where it is”, he said. “Of course if you are selling snake oil, you don’t like the idea of experts testing your products.
“And I think that’s what we’ve got, this backlash against evidence and experts is because they know where the experts will go.”
We have already seen the attacks on the judiciary and now the civil service is the target of these fuckwits. Throughout it all Teresa May remains mute. Worse than Thatcher.
O’Donnell said honesty and objectivity ran through the core of civil servants “like a stick of rock”, and the forecasts which came from Whitehall would have been made in good faith.
Civil servants “look at the evidence and we go where it is”, he said. “Of course if you are selling snake oil, you don’t like the idea of experts testing your products.
“And I think that’s what we’ve got, this backlash against evidence and experts is because they know where the experts will go.”
We have already seen the attacks on the judiciary and now the civil service is the target of these fuckwits. Throughout it all Teresa May remains mute. Worse than Thatcher.