The Blob is already getting ready to take down Reform |
On one level it’s not exactly surprising. The idea that large parts of the civil service would treat a Farage government with horror and seek to frustrate it is what many of Reform UK’s supporters have long suspected. But the sheer brazenness with which the Blob has now declared its hand is shocking and appalling in equal measure.
Civil servants’ largest trade union, PCS, has been debating a motion to ‘counter a hostile Reform government’ with ‘sustained industrial action’. If the motion is approved, the union’s ruling NEC would draw up a resistance strategy by the end of the year. In other words, they are considering going on strike if Farage wins the next election.
PCS said the quiet bit out loud. In so doing they have given Reform an ideal opportunity to claim the moral and legal high ground
PCS said the quiet bit out loud. In so doing they have given Reform an ideal opportunity to claim the moral and legal high ground
PCS said the quiet bit out loud. In so doing they have given Reform an ideal opportunity to claim the moral and legal high ground. Danny Kruger, in charge of Reform’s preparations for government, threw down the gauntlet with a steely response:
‘Any civil servant who seeks to undermine ministerial authority and the impartiality of the Civil Service through unlawful strike action will no longer have a job to return to…By publicly confirming the reason for future industrial action as opposition to a specific “hostile” government, the PCS have ensured their strikes cannot be considered a “trade dispute| and would be unprotected and unlawful.’
‘Any civil servant who seeks to undermine ministerial authority and the impartiality of........