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Whitehall insecurities about its new Conservative masters are laid bare in eye-opening secret papers leaked to The Sunday Telegraph.- Apparently!!!
The briefing – supposed to be kept strictly from ministers, but leaked in a nanosecond to the horribly anti-Cameron clegg coalition, Sunday Telegraph– shows that DCLG officials are worried about their new bosses. “Do they like us? Want to work with us?” it asks, adding: “There may be challenge over our part in what they see as failed policies/ delivery.”
The documents order mandarins to “smile!… Lean forward!… Be interesting!” They are told to engage in “supportive listening,” and “take cues from the Secretary of State.” Officials are advised that “eye contact [is] the real currency.” ”
Why might the Telegraph find this surprising??
Obviously because it’s decades out of date. Surely the real scandal would have been if there hadn’t been a plan to help the seriously under threat DCLG (Rumoured to be facing 20% budget cuts over the next 2 years- Ouch!), meet, understand and bend to the will of their new ‘masters’?
Jim Harvey
