“And when Sue Gray, the former civil service head of “Propriety and Ethics”, having improperly and unethically defected to be his chief of staff, demands a salary larger than his own, Sir Keir gets furious with the journalists who ask him about it. “I don’t believe my staff should be the subject of political debate like this,” he told the BBC.
Though Prime Minister, he seems not to know that it is the first duty of our elected Parliament to question how and why public money is spent.”
– Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
Sue Gray was the civil servant, at the time much lauded for her impartiality, who wrote the “Partygate” report that brought down Boris Johnson. If she had then retired, or stayed in the civil service, or got any other private sector job than the one she did, her place in history as a minor avenging angel would have been secure. But what she actually did was leave the civil service to become Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff. Her failure to declare that she had been in communication with Labour over this job offer while still a civil servant was a breach of civil service rules. Even if it had been within the letter of the rules, it was an obvious breach of their spirit, as more than one angry civil servant has said to me. Of course her salary is up for debate. She did not pass out of politics by going to work for the Labour Party, she passed into it. And her salary in her current position of Downing Street Chief of Staff is paid by the taxpayer.
Sue Grey was well paid for getting rid of Prime Minister Alexander Boris Johnson – and, although I do not rate him as a Prime Minister, I still find it despicable that supposedly a apolitical Civil Servant acted on behalf of the Labour Party whilst still being paid by the taxpayers and supposedly serving a Conservative Party government.
Not only was Sue Grey then given a highly paid job (paid by the taxpayers) for knifing Prime Minister Johnson in the back – her son was also rewarded.
The establishment is as corrupt as it is leftist – and it is time it was cleared out. Civil Service, “independent agencies” (such as the Bank of England) – the lot.
As for Mr Johnson – as I have already said, I do not rate him as a Prime Minister (that was clear even before Covid – when he gave in on HS2, flushing vast sums of taxpayer money down the drain on a scheme he knew made no sense, indeed he had previously opposed the scheme.
But “cake gate” was nonsense – are we really supposed to believe that the Covid virus stays asleep during work hours and only appears once work is over, so that if one socialises with people after work one gets Covid – but one does not get Covid working with the same people all day?
And, besides, Sir Keir Starmer and Mr Sunak (then Chancellor) socialised with staff (rather more than Mr Johnson did – as he does not really like parties, as Mark Steyn noticed about him during their days at the Spectator together).
Neither Sir Keir Starmer or Chancellor Sunak were forced out.
As for the endless BRIBE (and these presents are bribes) taking by Sir Keir Starmer and others – yet more despicable conduct. Mr Johnson is supposed to have done much the same – the apartment stuff.
Commies are crooks, do tell.
Anything and everything that is financed with taxed monies must always be “subject to political debate.”
bobby b – agreed Sir.
Paul:
The various “social distancing” rules et al were indeed nonsensical, but the point is the government made them, and the government ought to have obeyed them. Ordinary people were being fined for things which were in no way illegal in normal times. The police were going round parks with loud hailers telling people to move on. They were sending drones up in national parks to stop people walking in the fresh air. Colleagues were not permitted to socialize after work. This was mad, but it was the law, so the workers in Downing St were bound by it. If the law was stupid (it was), only the government had the power to change it, not us.
Your promotion of those with no proven political skills and no previous parliamentary experience but who happen to be related to those close to you, or even each other, is frankly embarrassing.
Extract from Rosie Duffield’s letter to the dear leader.
John – yes the government of Sir Keir Starmer is deeply squalid and corrupt, even by the low standards of politics. I am astonished that much of the media does not seem to grasp this. They say they are “not excited” and so on.
JohnK – I agree with you.
And I was proud of the local Muslim community (yes proud) when they ignored the edicts and continued to meet in a local park as normal. They are not friends of my “blood” – but they acted as free men, rather than slaves (unlike so many people) and I admired them for that.
But Prime Minister Johnson did not do anything that the Leader of the Opposition (Sir Keir Starmer – a fanatical supporter of the lockdowns) did not do – he also socialised with his staff.
So did Rishi Sunak – the then Chancellor.
Why was Mr Johnson forced out, but NOT Mr Sunak? Both senior government ministers.