Dear Editor,
It is a disturbing development that senior civil servants are briefing the press with their opinions of the Labour Party leader. All civil servants are required to be politically neutral, as it is their job to implement parliamentary decisions and government policy, not to try to influence the political process. However, like all other citizens they have the right to express their views through the ballot box.
As a former union rep for much more junior staff in the civil service than the mandarins concerned, I know that if any of my members had taken similar actions against elected politicians from any party, they would have at the very least been put on final warnings for gross misconduct, if not actually sacked outright.
Top civil servants should not be be given more favourable treatment than that which the vast majority of their colleagues in the lower grades would have received.
For the record, I am not a Labour Party member and so have no partisan axe to grind here.
Yours sincerely,
Neville Grundy
Chair
Merseyside Associate & Retired Members
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