Posted on 08/29/2016 5:56:09 AM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect
Full Title: You MUST deliver Brexit: Civil servants are warned by May after former chief sparks fury by saying that leaving EU is not inevitable
-Theresa May has ordered all Europhile civil servants to embrace Brexit
-She said it was their job to implement the decisions made by ministers
-Came after a top mandarin said that leaving the EU was 'not inevitable'
-Gus O'Donnell made the comments saying the UK could remain 'aligned' to the EU
Theresa May has ordered Europhile civil servants to embrace Brexit after a former top mandarin sparked fury by saying leaving the EU was not inevitable.
Gus ODonnell, the former Cabinet Secretary, said that despite the clear referendum result the country could end up remaining in a broader, more loosely aligned European Union.
Tory backbenchers said the comments by the ex-head of the civil service illustrated the mindset infecting Whitehall which is overwhelmingly pro-Europe. One Conservative MP called for officials who sought to defy the will of the people to be summarily fired.
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I wonder if pronouncements that “we don’t have to do what the people chose” is going to drive a few percent who supported “Remain” to see the wisdom of leaving.
Don’t arrest him. Demote him and make him serve under an obedient Civil Servant. Status is what it is all about. Humiliation is a terrible punishment.
He’s retired, no longer serving - which is why he is free to speak in this way in public.
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