Wednesday, May 12, 2010

The servants done well

We shall have to wait for the memoirs & diaries & the opening of the national archives in 30 years time (or however long it is now) to know what has really been going on behind what Ann Treneman calls the teal door of the Cabinet Office building, but the civil service has done a great job so far in helping the politicians come to an agreement about how to meet the wishes of the electorate.

By drawing up a written rule book, available to all, about the constitutional conventions & procedures to be followed; by facilitating the negotiations with accommodation & administrative advice & support. No briefings & leakings, helping everybody to be serious, grown up & clear about what they have decided (we hope). No sofa government here!

Let us hope that relations between politicians & civil servants have started as they mean to go on & our administrative system can be put back into good repair

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