Former Gravy Train Operative urges toy-throwing!

[shaunbhoy]

What input he has tried to give has been ignored or fobbed off by Downing Street because it didn't fit with their blinkered view of how things were going to be. No point in staying and doing the job if no-one is going to listen to you anyway.

Says you. And as you seem to have sight of the minutes of all their meetings, care to share with us what else was discussed?

[Chuck]

He's a bureaucrat who doesn't want to help reduce bureaucracy. Who'd ever have thought it?

[VectraMan]

He's a bureaucrat who doesn't want to help reduce bureaucracy. Who'd ever have thought it?

You're all missing the obvious. He's a bureaucrat who wants to leave his salaried job and come back as a megabucks consultant to ride the Brexit gravy train. Kerching!

[darmstadt]

You're all missing the obvious. He's a bureaucrat who wants to leave his salaried job and come back as a megabucks consultant to ride the Brexit gravy train. Kerching!

Sensible chap, that's what we're all doing isn't it? He's also another government finance chap who chops and changes:

Rogers left the civil service in 2006 to become Head of the UK Public Sector Group at Citigroup. In 2010 Rogers transferred to be Head of the Public Sector Industry Group, UK and Ireland, at Barclays Capital from 2010 to 2011.

[PurpleGorilla]

Former Gravy Train Operative urges toy-throwing!

I meet this Sir Ivan type in work all the time. They think they know it all, and because they have a few years experience it makes them right. Then you suggest improvements and ways of doing things differently and they come up with a thousand reasons why it won't work.

But ask them for ideas and they come up with tulip, and the world keeps on spinning to the same old tulip. Then you manage to get passed these monolithic road blocks and suddenly start making huge improvements and a real difference.

Teresa May wants a UK deal, a good deal, a deal better than Norway and Switzerland. Fook yeah! That's the way you make things happen - you have to go in with ideas, and passion, and put the bar as high as you can stretch.

[SueEllen]

Indeed. He is only a Public Servant. Why let a little thing like Duty interrupt his cossetted and pampered existence?

He's worked in the private sector between public sector posts according to what I was listening to earlier.

If he's like a couple of former managers I've worked with in the PS who worked in a similar way as they know they are employable in the private sector so they simply don't take tulip if the powers that be have stupid ideas.

[darmstadt]

I meet this Sir Ivan type in work all the time. They think they know it all, and because they have a few years experience it makes them right. Then you suggest improvements and ways of doing things differently and they come up with a thousand reasons why it won't work.

Sounds like any Brexiter you talk to

[darmstadt]

[woohoo]

You lost, get over it. We have a bright future ahead and I daresay we will be back running the world in a few years. I imagine those Germans will be begging us to come back and put those pesky French in their place.

That's the opposite of your world view.

Circles and roundabout and all that.

This night nurse is strong stuff!