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Originally Posted by jfman
The thing is the heads that roll would have to be sufficiently high, which in turn will sour the relationship (probably already strained) between Senior Civil Servants and Ministers.
Fundamentally Ministers are setting a precedent where - no matter what goes wrong - officials take the fall.
The idea that these happened, Johnson, Raab and presumably others attended such events sincerely believing them to be work related, is entirely fanciful.
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And the net result is the most talented in the civil service will avoid working for No. 10 or price walking the plank for their boss's mistakes into their salary expectations.
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Originally Posted by Damien
They're certainly gearing up to fire some staffers and have Johnson 'clean up this mess'. Not sure it's going to work, the public aren't idiots.
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Some of the public didn't know what Johnson was like when they voted Conservative in 2019; they saw him as an upbeat, likeable and humorous guy. They're not laughing anymore.
I'm not sure even a fulsome apology will work at this late stage, given the many cover-ups to date.