Simon Jenkins`s statement that if civil servants do not "believe in
what they are doing", they "should go", is nonsense (We will always need friends
in Europe - and diplomats, 05/01/17). Throughout modern history, the bureaucracy
has managed change, which was distinctly abhorrent to most of its members,
especially if it emanated from the left.
Civil servants, it is now being alleged, lack the "skill-set" necessary for
handling the detail of the Brexit negotiations, but the alternative is far
worse. Jenkins states that "wisdom is not fashionable in Europe just
now", but the trouble is that it is even less fashionable here. Imagine the
catastrophic results if the negotiations were left to the likes of Johnson,
Davis and Fox!
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