The writer here says:
“The British bureaucracy was once capably run by experienced civil servants, but now there are party apparatchiks who have taken to meddling in the hopes of ensuring that every government activity meets with the Labor plan for Britain.”
Evidently Britain’s vast socialist bureaucracy (at least half of which was instituted under Tory regimes) is a Good Thing but, alas, for the politicized hirelings from the recent Blair/Brown regimes.
If only Britain could get back to being taxed, regulated, and manipulated by those wonderfully “experienced” (read: sure old hands of Statist control) “civil” (read: government) “servants” (read: coercive parasites), how lovely things would be. (As depicted in those Thatcher-era television programs, _Yes, Minister_ and _Yes, Prime Minister_.)
I’m the last one to defend Gordon Brown, but this commentary (and apparently the book being promoted) come across as partisan baloney. Dodge, and perhaps Butler, is just issuing party polemics in hope that his beloved “Conservative” Party can get back to its old role of stealing from and running the lives of Brits while intruding into affairs across the globe (at taxpayer expense, of course).
