The Men Who Betrayed Britain: The Dysgenic Shadow Government

No matter who one votes for in England, one gets the same government. Vote Tory, get Civil Service; vote Labour, get Civil Service. The politicians are rotating puppets lost in a fog deliberately maintained by the faceless permanent secretaries of each department: they block; delay; dilute; divert, and deceive. These unaccountable bureaucrats are a self-appointed cabal who administrate their own policies opposite to the electorate's will and manipulate their decision-makers into following them.

Vote for less immigration? You're getting more immigration, to boost the Civil Service's population-based GDP figures. Vote for criminal sanctions on migrant groups raping young girls? You're going to jail for talking about it on social media, to keep "order" while the Civil Service import more.

The Civil Service rarely contracts. It always grows larger over time, expanding its powers and workforce. A quango here, a public body there, another recruitment drive next month. Ofcom started as a way to deal with TV complaints; now it has powers to regulate blogs. The state always gets larger, fatter, and heavier. It is never cut. It always needs more, no matter what. If the state runs out of money, it wants taxes and never a diet.

These are the people who betrayed the country with incompetence, malfeasance, stupidity, callousness, and pathetic self-interest. Every one of them got a knighthood or a peerage, on top of a fat pension for life in their house in Surrey.

These names will become overtly familiar.

1. Butler, Burns, Wright/Gillmore, Whitmore. (1990–1994)
2. Butler, Burns, Gillmore/Coles, Whitmore/Wilson. (1994–1998)
3. Wilson, Turnbull, Kerr, Omand. (1998–2002)
4. Turnbull, O’Donnell, Jay, Gieve. (2002–2006)
5. O’Donnell, Macpherson, Ricketts, Normington. (2006–2011)
6. Heywood, Macpherson, Fraser, Ghosh/Sedwill. (2010–2015)
7. Heywood/Sedwill, Scholar, McDonald, Sedwill/Rutnam. (2015–2020)
8. Case, Bowler, Barton, Rycroft. (2020–2024)
9. Wormald, Bowler, Robbins, Rycroft. (2024–2025)

Understanding Their Dirty Kingdom

The power of the Civil Service is divided into four positions reflecting the four Great Offices of State (Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary):

• Cabinet Secretary (CEO)
• Treasury Secretary (CFO)
• Foreign Office Permanent Secretary (Chief Diplomat)
• Home Office Permanent Secretary (Chief Policeman)

The first two are, by far, the most powerful people in government. The Cabinet Secretary runs the show, and the Treasury Secretary controls the money. The rest of them are there to make sure their politician is "housetrained" like a puppy to obey the Civil Service party line.

The Cabinet Secretary is the head of the Home Civil Service (since 1981, with a brief split from 2011–2014) and the principal adviser to the Prime Minister and the Cabinet. They oversee the coordination of government policy across all departments, chair the Senior Civil Service leadership, and ensure the Civil Service supports the government of the day impartially. Their position at the center of government gives them unparalleled access to the Prime Minister and Cabinet ministers. They shape the machinery of government, mediate interdepartmental disputes, and often play a key role in national crises (e.g., Brexit negotiations under Jeremy Heywood or COVID-19 under Simon Case).

The Permanent Secretary to the Treasury is the accounting officer for HM Treasury, advising the Chancellor of the Exchequer on fiscal and economic policy. They oversee public spending, taxation, and economic strategy, which are foundational to government operations. The Treasury wields immense power because it controls the purse strings—every department’s budget depends on Treasury approval. The Permanent Secretary’s influence extends through economic policy that shapes the nation’s direction, from austerity measures (e.g., Nicholas Macpherson under George Osborne) to emergency responses (e.g., Tom Scholar during COVID-19).

The Permanent Secretary to the Foreign Office is the senior civil servant responsible for the day-to-day management of foreign affairs and embassies, advising the Foreign Secretary, managing MI6 for the Cabinet Secretary, and serving as Head of His Majesty's Diplomatic Service.

List of foreign office secretaries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Under-Secretary_of_State_for_Foreign_Affairs

The Permanent Secretary to the Home Office is the senior civil servant responsible for managing internal affairs, advising the Home Secretary, managing MI5 for the Cabinet Secretary, and overseeing areas like policing, immigration, and security.

List of home office secretaries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Under-Secretary_of_State_at_the_Home_Office

Understanding Their Dirty Tactics

The behaviour of the Civil Service has been a subject of comedy for decades in "Yes, Prime Minister." (See: https://facultyweb.kennesaw.edu/uzimmerm/docs/Yes%20Minister.pdf)

The cornerstone of it what we might call "malicious compliance."

"the behavior of strictly following the orders of a superior despite knowing that compliance with the orders will have an unintended or negative result."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious_compliance

For responding to crises:

• Stage 1: Nothing's going to happen.
• Stage 2: Something may be going to happen but we should do nothing about it.
• Stage 3: Maybe we should do something about it, but there's nothing we can do.
• Stage 4: Maybe there was something we could've done, but it's too late now.

For stalling:

• Claim the administration is early, with other priorities.
• Question if the approach is right, even if intention is good.
• Shift to timing, saying "not the time" for various reasons.
• Introduce technical, political, or legal difficulties, especially legal ones.
• After delays, cite proximity to elections as a barrier.

And for handling cuts:

• Welcome the announcement and praise the Chancellor.
• Set up a unit to identify cuts causing outrage, increasing Cabinet Office size.
• Create response units to show cuts are impossible or unacceptable.
• Turn units into independent bodies, keeping salaries via grants.
• Create agencies financed by fees, not payroll.
• Encourage staff to form companies for contracts, retaining benefits.
• Convert full-time jobs to part-time to claim reductions.

To: Bernard Woolley
From: Sir Humphrey Appleby

REDUCTION IN CIVIL SERVICE NUMBERS

Thank you for your note. I understand your concern at the recent Budget announcement of cuts in the service, but I assure you that there is no need to distress yourself in any way. This has all happened before, and there is an established procedure for dealing with it. We simply follow the infallible seven-stage plan.

1: Welcome the announcement, praise the Chancellor and say that such a procedure is long overdue.

2: Set up an internal Manpower Reduction Unit. This unit will be responsible for identifying areas where reductions in personnel numbers should be sought. These areas will, of course, be those where reductions would cause the maximum press outrage and parliamentary embarrassment. This will, of course, entail a gratifying increase in the size of the Cabinet Office.

3: Arrange for each threatened department to set up an Informal Response Unit to show why any specific proposed cuts are, in fact, administratively impossible, legally inadmissible, financially unjustifiable or politically unacceptable; preferably all of these. Since these units are informal, there is no need to reveal their existence to the Cabinet.

4: When there is extreme pressure to show actual reductions, turn government units into independent bodies. This removes all personnel from the government payroll, but their salaries continue to be paid by means of a grant-in-aid. You will remember that this worked very well with Kew Gardens some years ago; the scam is still not worked out.

5: Where trusts are inappropriate, create agencies. Those, too, can have staff who are not on the government payroll, financed by fees for specific tasks.

6: If it starts to look as if there are too many trusts and agencies, encourage staff to leave and form small companies. These companies can then be awarded contracts for training, research, accounting services, data-processing, booklet production and the like, on which they are currently employed and which will secure their existing salaries, allowances and pension arrangements.

7: Turn full-time jobs into two part-time jobs. This will enable you to brief your minister to claim dramatic reductions in full-time posts.

This strategy has never failed us yet. Since our colleagues in the Treasury have already persuaded the Chancellor to spin the process out until 2008, we can be sure that, by then, there will be a new chancellor, a new prime minister and, quite possibly, a new government. At that point, the whole squalid business can be swept under the carpet. Until next time.

https://www.civilservant.org.uk/misc-humour-sir_humphrey.html

What is the Office for Budget Responsibility?

In 2010, evil reptile Chancellor George Osborne proposed an "independent" watchdog for monitoring public finances. Along with the Bank of England, the OBR is the third leg of the evil triad which cockblocks politicians from doing anything constructive, like cutting taxes. They were responsible for kneecapping the hapless Liz Truss.

Before the OBR came along, the Treasury produced its own economic forecasts under the chancellor. It was introduced to “remove [from politicians] the temptation to fiddle the figures.”

All 52 permanent staff members of the OBR are civil servants, led by Laura Gardiner, the Acting Chief of Staff. Additionally, key leaders like Richard Hughes (Chair) and Tom Josephs (BRC member) have significant past roles in the civil service, such as at HM Treasury and the Department for Work and Pensions. It advertises vacancies on the Civil Service Jobs portal.

Richard Hughes, the Chair of the Budget Responsibility Committee (BRC) since October 2020, was formerly the Director of Fiscal Policy and Acting Chief Economist at the Treasury.

Tom Josephs, a BRC member, has held senior roles including Director for Private Pensions at the Department for Work and Pensions, Director of Fiscal Group at the Treasury, Director of Trade Policy at the Department for International Trade, and Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund

The OBR does "impartial" things out of malicious compliance, as Jeremy Hunt pointed out:

The OBR review into the issue of possible withholding of information and the past government's departmental spending transparency will be published on Wednesday - the same day as the budget. Mr Hunt said: "I do not believe publishing a review with criticisms of the main opposition party on the day of a budget is consistent with political impartiality,".

https://news.sky.com/story/jeremy-hunt-accuses-obr-of-political-intervention-for-publishing-review-on-budget-day-13243292

It's one of a number of schemes operated by the Civil Service, at arm's length. Ofcom is now their Internet censor, for example. This ever-increasing union of "soviets" ("soviet" means "council" in Russian) never stop reproducing themselves.

2020s: Orwell's Nightmare

The authoritarian era of Covid lockdowns and mass censorship through Ofcom's expansion, "Respect Orders," and the Online Safety Act (OSA).

Chris Wormald (2024–now)

Appointed in December 2024 and currently serving as of March 13, 2025, under Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Wormald is literally one of the worst human beings England has produced for some time, being heavily involved in Covid lockdowns.

• Cabinet Secretary

Writing on X following Sir Chris's appointment on Monday, Cummings was fiercely critical of his role at the time. “Many officials came to me in panic when they realised the cabinet secretary and permanent secretary of the health department in charge of pandemic planning truly believed that the faster everyone got Covid, the better,” he wrote. “He is now in charge of the entire system. Plan accordingly!”

Cummings also accused Sir Chris of being “embedded deeply” in the infected blood scandal and repeatedly telling ministers “untruths about the documents”.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly4962e7q1o

James Bowler (2022–now)

Appointed in October 2022 and currently serving as of March 13, 2025, under Chancellors Kwasi Kwarteng, Jeremy Hunt, and Rachel Reeves. He was the permanent secretary at the Department for International Trade and then led the Covid response. Oh, joy.

• Treasury Secretary

Bowler sold out the PM and conservative party by denying he'd ever produced any data:

Following Rishi Sunak's claim during the 2024 general election that Labour's plans would mean £2,000 of tax rises per household. Bowler said the Conservatives' assessment of Labour's tax plans "should not be presented as having been produced by the civil service". (FarLeftiPedia)

Oliver Robbins (2025–now)

Appointed January 8, 2025, and currently serving as of March 13, 2025, under Foreign Secretary David Lammy. Previously served in senior roles across government, including Brexit negotiations. His nickname is "Sir Humphrey" and he worked for Goldman. That should tell you everything.

• Foreign Office

Robbins is, of course, the man who fucked Brexit for his boss, Teresa. And was defended by another scumbag, Sedwill.

He was the frequent target of angry briefings from Brexiteers who variously accused him of pro-EU bias or of having too much sway over May. It forced a rare public intervention from then-Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill, who said those attacking Robbins “should be ashamed of themselves" and leapt to the defense of Robbins' “extraordinary dedication and professionalism."

https://www.politico.eu/article/olly-robbins-scourge-brexiteer-back-uk-government/

Matthew Rycroft (2020–now)

Appointed March 2020 and currently serving as of March 13, 2025, under Home Secretaries Priti Patel, Suella Braverman, Grant Shapps (briefly), and Yvette Cooper. Previously served as Permanent Secretary at DFID. Oversaw post-Brexit points-based system, Rwanda deportation plan, and Labour’s 2024 immigration adjustments.

• Home Office

Rycroft is the quintessential "grey man." He's the wokest of them all and loves his open borders.

Under his watch the Home Office has promoted increasingly progressive ideas. Last year The Telegraph revealed Border Force officers are allowed to wear rainbow epaulettes, ‘non-binary’ Home Office civil servants are given two security passes so they can change their gender daily depending on how they identify, and staff have held a series of events on Black History Month in which people have openly supported BLM.

https://www.gbnews.com/opinion/revealed-the-woke-home-office-chief-who-has-overseen-britains-open-borders

Philip Barton (2020–2025)

Served from September 2020 to January 2025, under Foreign Secretaries Dominic Raab, Liz Truss, James Cleverly, and David Lammy. Led the FCDO through its post-merger phase and major global events like the Ukraine war.

• Foreign Office

The Spectator described him as "utterly useless":

In the course of this afternoon’s grilling it transpired that the £185,000-a-year official – who has a pension worth £1.7m – stayed on holiday until 26 August, some 11 days after Kabul fell. With Icarus-level hubris, Sir Philip refused to disclose where his jolly jaunt exactly was – only that it was split between the UK and abroad.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-utter-uselessness-of-sir-philip-barton/

Simon Case (2020–2024)

Served from September 2020 to December 2024, under Prime Ministers Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak, and Keir Starmer.

• Cabinet Secretary

Even the Guardian - the GUARDIAN - hated this guy for this scandals and incompetence.

A former royal courtier, Case was considered by permanent secretary colleagues not to have enough experience to run the whole home civil service when appointed by Johnson in 2020. A string of episodes since then have only added to disapproval of his leadership within the civil service. These include failing to stand up to Truss when she sacked the Treasury’s permanent secretary Tom Scholar, allowing Nadhim Zahawi to become chancellor when his tax affairs were under investigation, and the leak of chummy messages to the former health secretary Matt Hancock. In these, Case described Johnson in one message as a “nationally distrusted figure”, and referred to Sunak’s opposition to Covid restrictions on businesses as “going bonkers”.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/02/is-it-time-up-for-simon-case-the-mandarin-whos-never-out-of-the-media

These people oversaw the following events:

• The UK formally leaves the EU, leaving Northern Ireland half in and economically trapped.
• The UK enters a new cold war against Russia, who invade Ukraine.
• As politicians have parties, ordinary people are locked in their homes by police order, forcibly vaccinated, and have their salaries paid by the government pumping huge amounts of borrowed money into the economy.
• Mass immigration hits 1 million per year.
• Ofcom is given mass censorship powers to attempt to regulate the Internet.
• Queen Elizabeth II dies, leaving her facile son wanting to be sworn in as "defender of faith," rather than [The] Protestant faith.
• The Bank of England, OBR, and Treasury engineer a market collapse to remove a Prime Minister trying to reduce the size of the state.
• The right to protest is "regulated" under the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act (2022).
• The conservatives are dramatically collapsed by the electorate refusing to turn out to vote for them, as they turn to Farage's more right-wing alternative.
• The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Act 2021 legalises criminal activities by intelligence agencies
• Riots begin over child killing and mass rape by Islamic gangs, ending in multi-year prison sentences over speech offences on social media.
• Yet more economic collapse under the inflation "cost of living" crisis from Covid money-printing.
• Former enemies in Northern Ireland unite against mass immigration.
• The government move to legalise euthanasia on the NHS and give away the Chagos islands military bases.
• The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 restricts protest.
• The Labour party attempt to covertly engineer re-entry of the EU via trade and defence rule-matching.

2010s: Brexit Betrayal

The conservative/liberal joint idolatry of Blair leads to gay marriage, the further breakdown of the Union, communist uprising in the Labour party, and years of blatantly trying to reverse the largest democratic exercise in the nation's history.

Helen Ghosh (2011–2012)

Served from January 2011 to November 2012, under Home Secretary Theresa May. First woman in this role. Began the “hostile environment” policy and laid the groundwork for later enforcement measures.

• Home Office Secretary

Helen doesn't like Brexit or climate change. She likes that snake Michael Gove.
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/brexit-environment-decade-uncertainty-national-trust-helen-ghosh-agriculture-short-term-protection-a7876706.html

Jeremy Heywood (2012–2018, d. 2018)

Served from January 2012 to October 2018, under Prime Ministers David Cameron, Theresa May, and briefly Boris Johnson (though he stepped down before Boris Johnson took office). Initially, he took on the Cabinet Secretary role alone after O’Donnell’s duties were split, but he later combined it with Head of the Home Civil Service from 2014 onward.

• Cabinet Secretary

Heywood was the goto enforcer guy for every dreadful leader in the last 30 years.

Sir Jeremy was last year vilified by Eurosceptic Conservative MPs because he was deemed to be the author of a complex solution to the Brexit customs conundrum. His absence since June through illness made it difficult for him to defend his protégé Olly Robbins, Mrs May’s main Brexit negotiator, who has been attacked by Eurosceptic Tories.

https://www.ft.com/content/d68385d6-d7aa-11e8-ab8e-6be0dcf18713

Mark Sedwill (2013–2020)

Served from February 2013 to June 2017, under Home Secretaries Theresa May and Amber Rudd. Later became Cabinet Secretary and Lord Sedwill. Oversaw the peak of the “hostile environment” (e.g., 2014 Immigration Act) and Brexit referendum preparations, which centered on immigration control. Lord Sedwill since 2021.

• Home Office Secretary
• Cabinet Secretary

Where do you begin with a creature like Sedwill? He was forced to resign.

The letter suggests he recognises the pressure civil servants feel as a result of Brexit. He wrote: "I realise that this is an unsettling period. Brexit polarises public opinion and civil servants are not immune from those pressures.

https://news.sky.com/story/brexit-is-unsettling-the-civil-service-cabinet-sec-admits-in-leaked-letter-11823909

Philip Rutnam (2017–2020)

Served from April 2017 to February 2020, under Home Secretaries Amber Rudd, Sajid Javid, and Priti Patel. Resigned amid tensions with Patel over the Windrush scandal. Managed the Windrush scandal fallout and post-Brexit immigration planning.

• Home Office Secretary

Rutnam is an anti-Brexit cuck. There's no other way to put it. He's so much of a cuck, he accused a little Asian woman of being mean to get her fired.

He accused her of lying and said he had received allegations that she had shouted and sworn at staff. The former official said he was the victim of a 'briefing campaign' and that in choosing to publicly resign he had turned down a 'financial settlement' from the Cabinet Office.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8059217/Sir-Philip-Rutnam-QUITS-rows-Priti-Patel-says-sue-Government.html

Simon Fraser (2010–2015)

Served from August 2010 to November 2015, under Foreign Secretaries William Hague and Philip Hammond. Probably responsible for the trans flag at MI6 with Moore.

• Foreign Office Secretary

Fraser is another anti-Brexit activist and whiney saboteur.

In an opinion piece published by the Financial Times, former Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) permanent under-secretary Simon Fraser – who led the FCO 2010-15, and is now vice chair of international affairs think tank Chatham House – wrote: “The claim that leaving the EU would open a highway to British global influence was always hollow. Since 2016, the UK’s influence has declined; our forces are barely present in international theatres of conflict and, as recent days have again shown, the Brexit soap opera undermines our diplomacy and soft power”.

https://www.globalgovernmentforum.com/former-uk-diplomatic-chief-warns-of-declining-influence-overseas/

Simon McDonald (2015–2020)

Served from November 2015 to September 2020, under Foreign Secretaries Philip Hammond, Jeremy Hunt, and Dominic Raab. Oversaw the transition from FCO to FCDO in 2020. Lord McDonald of Salford since 2021.

• Foreign Office Secretary

Yep, another anti-Brexit remainer.

Lord McDonald says there was a sense of "mourning" and staff in tears in the Foreign Office on the morning after the referendum result.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-66769661

Tom Scholar (2016–2022)

Served from July 2016 to September 2022, under Chancellors Philip Hammond, Sajid Javid, Rishi Sunak, and briefly Kwasi Kwarteng. Rightly sacked by Kwarteng on his first day as Chancellor under Prime Minister Liz Truss.

• Treasury Secretary

Scholar is Olly Robbins' butt-boy and man-servant. He's an evil little wretch who did everything he could to wreck Brexit. He got sacked, and that's good. All the right people were mad.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend, Lord Butler said his "very unusual and very regrettable" departure reminded him of the US, where it is common for incoming governments to appoint their own officials. "I think they are behaving improperly towards the civil service," he told the programme. "A government wouldn't come in and on the first day sack the head of Her Majesty's defence forces, the chief of the defence staff," he added.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-62869880

Just you f**king wait, Robin.

These people oversaw the following events:

• GCHQ's mass surveillance is revealed by Edward Snowden.
• MPs are allowed to be recalled, as Lords can resign or be expelled
• Gay marriage is legalised
• The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 cuts legal aid.
• Islamic terrorism incidences become almost endemic and routine
• Cities begin to have their own partisan mayors and police commissioners
• Scotland votes against independence in a referendum but passes Orwellian thought crime laws as SNP leaders are exposed as corrupt
• The Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (DRIPA) 2014 mandates data retention by internet service providers.
• The Investigatory Powers Act 2016, known as the "snooper’s charter," expands surveillance powers, including bulk data collection.
• The Establishment lose a referendum on EU membership after 25 years of dragging, then bring the country close to civil war through three years of trying to cobertly reverse it in bad faith.
• The most communist PM candidate in UK history is given the worst landslide defeat in a century.

2000s: Constitutional Vandalism

Blair, Brown, and Cameron embark to make a complete political transformation of Britain into a "separation of powers" mass immigration/surveillance regime almost irreversible. Marxism, identity politics, climate change, Islamic terrorism, migration, economic collapse, and the gelding of Parliament are normalised.

This set are almost as guilty as the 1990s set. Their devotion to Blairism set the stage for the country's peril.

David Normington (2006–2011)

Served from January 2006 to January 2011, under Home Secretaries John Reid, Jacqui Smith, and Alan Johnson. Dealt with immigration system reforms post-2006 “foreign prisoners scandal” and EU migration pressures. Introduced points-based system (2008). His nickname was apparently ‘the smiling assassin’ which doesn't bode well.

• Home Office Secretary

Normington is an old school ruthless Machiavellian bastard who should be in charge of MI6, despite totally failing in his last job at the home office. Because he'd clearly stab either side in the back. Put him where he belongs.

The arrival of migrants in small boats by illegal means is an all-too-visible symbol of the government’s apparent loss of control of our borders. We expect our governments to provide and safeguard the basic architecture of the state, including a secure and defined frontier. When that border is being crossed time after time in broad daylight, we lose confidence in the capability and competence of the government. The current government knows this, just as the Labour hierarchy did in the early 2000s.

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/60487/how-to-fix-the-channel-crisis

Gus O’Donnell (2002–2011)

Served from August 2005 to December 2011, under Prime Ministers Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and David Cameron. Lord O’Donnell since 2012.

• Treasury Secretary
• Cabinet Secretary

Gus is responsible for many of the modern problems we have. He LOVES mass immigration, hates Brexit, and generally represents the destruction of Britain in human form. He's a traitor, and put simply, he should be the first to be prosecuted.

When I was at the Treasury I argued for the most open door possible to immigration … I think it's my job to maximise global welfare not national welfare.

Goodhart, David (2017). "Ch. 1. The Great Divide". The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers

Gus is basically Satan.

Gray’s preferred choice for the post of cabinet secretary under Labour is Olly Robbins, the former chief Brexit negotiator. “I worked with him a lot and he’s very, very good,” said O’Donnell. “But there’s no vacancy at the minute and when it comes to replacing the cabinet secretary I’m sure they’ll have a proper process. I see people mentioning his name but I think that’s incredibly premature."

https://www.newstatesman.com/encounter/2024/03/gus-odonnell-insiders-guide-preparing-power

John Gieve (2001–2006)

Served from November 2001 to February 2006, under Home Secretaries David Blunkett, Charles Clarke, and briefly John Reid. Oversaw the 2004 EU expansion (A8 countries). Managed the backlash to Labour’s open-door policy and subsequent controls. Served as Deputy Governor for Financial Stability (!!!!!!) of the Bank of England and an ex officio member of the Monetary Policy Committee from 2006 to 2009.

• Home Office Secretary

Another nasty anti-Brexit activist who mismanaged the home office and then mismanaged the Bank of England.

“The talk of recession is a bit misleading. It’s not the result of the economic cycle, this is a public health-motivated suppression of activity. When that suppression is relaxed, you should see a rapid bounce back,” Gieve said. Monthly economic figures from IHS Markit showed that the UK economy is hurtling towards a recession of a scale “we have not seen in modern history”, the data provider said.

https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/uk-will-bounce-back-from-virus-crisis-says-ex-bank-of-england-deputy-20200330

Michael Jay (2002–2006)

Served from July 2002 to August 2006, under Foreign Secretaries Jack Straw and Margaret Beckett. Lord Jay of Ewelme since 2006.

• Foreign Office Secretary

Can you guess? Rabid anti-Brexit campaigner.

Five former Cabinet secretaries, three ex-Foreign and Commonwealth perm secs and a selection of other one-time civil service leaders have voted to back a call to keep the UK in a customs union with the EU, a move which could derail prime minister Theresa May’s Brexit plans. Among those in favour of the amendment were former Cabinet secretaries Lord Robert Armstrong, Lord Robin Butler, Lord Gus O’Donnell, Lord Andrew Turnbull, and Lord Richard Wilson. Kerr’s two FCO successors who are members of the House of Lords – Lord Michael Jay and Lord Peter Ricketts – also backed the amendment, as did former Treasury perm sec Lord Nicholas Macpherson.

https://www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/article/former-perm-secs-and-civil-service-chiefs-vote-against-government-on-brexit

Nicholas Macpherson (2005–2016)

Served from August 2005 to March 2016, under Chancellors Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling, George Osborne, and briefly Philip Hammond. Lord Macpherson of Earl’s Court since 2016. This bastard is almost certainly responsible for all the immigration fuckery and econometrics bullshit of the last 20 years.

• Treasury Secretary

Macpherson is more responsible than anyone for mass immigration, GDP-go-up, anti-Brexit activism, and poisonous bullshit. Along with Gus O'Donnell, he is a cancer.

In the 11 years from 2005 to 2016, Nick Macpherson served as permanent secretary to the Treasury – the tax and spending plans of three administrations (Blair, Brown and Cameron) had to clear his desk. As the Treasury’s lead civil servant, Macpherson helped construct the budgets of three chancellors, becoming the longest serving Treasury “perm sec” since the Second World War.

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/politics-interview/2021/11/treasury-grandee-nick-macpherson-the-idea-that-brexit-has-liberalised-trade-is-just-nonsense

Peter Ricketts (2006–2010)

Served from August 2006 to January 2010, under Foreign Secretaries Margaret Beckett, David Miliband, and briefly William Hague. Lord Ricketts since 2011.

• Foreign Office Secretary

Ricketts was the UK's first national security adviser during the Iraq affair. He hates Brexit, Boris Johnson, and Marine Le Pen.

He was invited onto Radio Four’s Today programme during the build-up to the EU referendum last year and was a cheerleader for the Cameron government’s Project Fear scare-mongering. Most egregiously he backed its claim that Brexit would lead to the French moving the Jungle migrant camp (which no longer even exists) from Calais to Kent. He was at it again yesterday, griping about Donald Trump’s invitation for a State Visit to the UK this summer.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-4178360/Cameron-crony-Remoaner-axe-grind.html

These people oversaw the following events:

• The public are given "freedom of information", which the government can opt out of.
• Blair deceives the nation into two wars after 9/11 and embarks on a "deliberate policy" of "deliberate policy" to "open up the UK to mass migration."
• Courts issue "anti-social behaviour orders" to the working class without trial as foxhunting by the upper class is banned.
• The expansion of the national DNA database retained innocent people's DNA.
• Mass-casualty Islamic terrorism replaces IRA terrorism.
• The right to remain silent during arrest is removed and detention limits raised.
• Parliamentary's legal sovereignty is removed by disconnecting the Lords and Lord Chancellor role, to create a "Supreme Court" able to overrule it.
• The press is made subject to censorship by a "regulator," Ofcom.
• The Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 allowed indefinite detention without charge.
• The Identity Cards Act 2006 proposed national ID cards.
• Mass technology surveillance is implemented via the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) and GCHQ.
• The Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 introduced control orders, a form of house arrest.
• The Terrorism Act 2006 criminalised "glorification" of terrorism.
• 10 Eastern European countries joined the EU, flooding the UK via free movement rights with 100,000+ immigrants.
• MPs begin to speak up about mass rapes of working class Christian white girls by feral Pakistani muslim gangs.
• Climate change beliefs and "Net Zero" targets are enforced by law.
• The economy collapses because of London banking practices (Housing Crisis), causing the the government to pump huge amounts of borrowed money into the economy.
• Gays are allowed legal partnerships.
• Identity politics and Marxist theory is written into law via the Equality Act.
• Civil Service power is institutionalised by the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act.
• MPs are found to be rampantly abusing their expenses.

1990s: Abandoning Sovereignty

The end of the Thatcher neoliberal era and beginning of the Blair disaster. The country's GDP was larger than both India and China combined, as the 1997 handover of Hong Kong marked the end of the British Empire. And the beginning of Tony Blair's disastrous egotism.

Andrew Turnbull (1998–2005)

Served from September 2002 to August 2005, under Prime Minister Tony Blair. Lord Turnbull since 2005.

• Treasury Secretary
• Cabinet Secretary

Turnbull is one of the old school Treasury lifers, but still thought Brexiteers were comparable to Nazis.

Lord Turnbull, who was cabinet secretary under Tony Blair, told the Observer accusations of sabotage reminded him of the "stab-in-the-back" myth that arose among Nazis before the Second World War. Senior civil servants are subject to "pre-emptive scapegoating" by those pushing to leave the EU because they fear they are losing the public debate, he said.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/attacks-by-brexiteers-on-civil-servants-are-like-1930s-germany-says-former-head-of-civil-service-a3757386.html

Clive Whitmore (1983–1994, d. 2018)

Served until January 1994, under Home Secretaries Leon Brittan, Douglas Hurd, David Waddington, Kenneth Baker, and Kenneth Clarke. Oversaw immigration during the tail end of Thatcher’s government and into Major’s, a period of tightening controls post-1981 Immigration Act. Less high-profile immigration crises compared to later years.

• Home Office Secretary

Clive ran the home office during the last Thatcher years when Major took over. He was based. Just your run-of-the-mill ruthless bastard Sir Humphrey. Standard issue. He was there during Maastricht.

David Gillmore (1991–1994, d. 1998)

Served from February 1991 to April 1994, under Foreign Secretaries Douglas Hurd and John Major. Lord Gillmore of Thamesfield in 1996.

No photos of Gillmore exist.

• Foreign Office Secretary

There's nothing much to say of Gillmore. Standard issue MI6 guy who went around South Africa, Moscow, etc. Run-of-the-mill ruthless bastard Sir Humphrey. Standard issue. He was there during Maastricht.

David Omand (1998–2001)

Served from September 1998 to November 2001, under Home Secretaries Jack Straw and briefly David Blunkett. Known for intelligence expertise. Under Straw, immigration policy tightened with the 1999 Immigration and Asylum Act, introducing dispersal and detention policies. Omand’s intelligence background may have linked immigration to security.

• Home Office Secretary

Omand was director of GCHQ after the intelligence services were first recognised by the government publicly. He advocated for going after David Kelly, and he's an evil ruthless Machiavellian bastard. Almost certainly responsible for expanding mass surveillance. Of course, he is anti-Brexit.

Sir David Omand, Whitehall’s former chief security and intelligence coordinator, pointed out that after the terrorist attacks in Paris in November, the British government had agreed actually to step up cooperation in the EU by signing up to the Prüm Convention - sometimes called Schengen III –covering data exchanges on DNA and vehicle registrations. He also warned that Brexit would “exacerbate existing faultlines” in Northern Ireland.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/defence-and-security-blog/2016/jun/20/remain-in-eu-say-former-uk-security-and-intelligence-chiefs

John Coles (1994–1997)

Served from May 1994 to October 1997, under Foreign Secretaries Douglas Hurd and Malcolm Rifkind, and briefly Robin Cook.

• Foreign Office Secretary

There's not much about Coles. Standard issue mandarin with no opinions in any direction. Good. He liked Thatcher.

John Kerr (1997–2002)

Served from October 1997 to July 2002, under Foreign Secretaries Robin Cook and Jack Straw. Lord Kerr of Kinlochard since 2004. He has a head shaped like an alien egg and doesn't like those "far right" types.

• Foreign Office Secretary

If AIDS were a man, John would take the award. With his weird alien head, he is, of course, a rabid anti-Brexit activist who ironically drafted the exit clause for the EU constitution.

The deal we have been offered is not what was promised and it’s not nearly as good as the deal we’ve got in the EU, but it’s the only Brexit offer on the table. Today was the day the terms of the debate changed because, if MPs and ultimately the British people, think it’s a bad deal, we know we can reject it without fear.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/06/drafted-article-50-brexit-referendum-eu-state

Patrick Wright (1986–1991, d. 2020)

Served until February 1991, under Foreign Secretaries Geoffrey Howe and John Major (briefly). Lord Wright of Richmond in 1994.

• Foreign Office Secretary

Other than being Michel Foucault's doppelganger, Wright's life is of the standard MI6 mandarin. Nothing interesting, or boring. Nothing notable, and nothing insignificant. But where was he during Maastricht? Oh, that's right.

Richard Wilson (1994–2002)

Served from January 1994 to September 1998, under Home Secretaries Kenneth Clarke, and briefly Jack Straw. Later became Cabinet Secretary. Served under Michael Howard, who introduced stricter asylum policies (e.g., 1996 Asylum and Immigration Act). Wilson likely shaped administrative responses to rising asylum claims. Lord Wilson of Dinton since 2002.

• Cabinet Secretary
• Home Office Secretary

Dinton looks like a rat. He literally looks like a rodent. As the bureaucrat's faceless bureaucrat, he wrecked the UK's nuclear energy program during the Thatcher years. Naturally, he hates Brexit.

Wilson said the job of governments and ministers is more difficult than it used to be due to social media, "where you have to comment all the time rather than stopping, thinking and taking advice". And he said the job of the civil service is "weakening because of Brexit, which was a huge blow in terms of management, followed in no time by the pandemic".

https://www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/article/civil-service-being-marginalised-and-overpoliticised-former-cab-secs-warn

Robin Butler (1988–1998)

Served from January 1988 to January 1998, under Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher, John Major, and Tony Blair. Lord Butler of Brockwell since 1998. He was famously asked by a student “What is our constitution?” He replied, “It is something we [the Establishment] make up as we go along”. 

• Cabinet Secretary

Butler was the chief during the big transition from independent country on-the-up, to declining multicultural islamic EU disaster on its way down. He's who Sir Humphrey would model Sir Humphrey on. Occasionally based (e.g. Iraq war enquiry), but on the wrong side of everything - including, of course, Brexit.

To illustrate how staggeringly manipulative this old lizard is, he argued for a second referendum as a natural "democratic" conclusion to a binding democratic vote:

Butler, who was Margaret Thatcher’s principal private secretary before serving in the top civil service job from 1988 to 1998, told peers on Tuesday night that a second referendum vote was needed to establish "the up-to-date view of the British electorate" once talks with European Union member states have been concluded.

The former cabinet secretary argued that the UK government had "a duty to be sure before our departure becomes final", asking why pro-Brexit figures "who base their arguments for Brexit on the will of the people" now appeared "opposed to consulting the people on the outcome of the negotiations".

https://www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/article/brexit-put-deal-to-a-fresh-referendum-says-former-head-of-the-civil-service-lord-butler

Terence Burns (1991–1998)

Served from June 1991 to June 1998, under Chancellors Norman Lamont, Kenneth Clarke, and briefly Gordon Brown. Lord Burns since 1998. Also chairman of Channel 4, and Ofcom. Of course.

• Treasury Secretary

Recession, Black Wednesday, Maastricht. This charming chap was there for it all. He's a placeholder sort of a chap without any real opinions either way, which is probably why he stood by and watched it all go up in flames.

Meanwhile, the key ideological appointment was a new chief economic adviser more sympathetic to the government’s monetarist approach. That led to the appointment of Terry Burns in his early 30s – which was seen as extremely young in a civil service which was still very age bound at the time. Burns eventually became permanent secretary but had his own falling out with a new Chancellor – in this case, Gordon Brown. He and Brown had a scratchy relationship from the start over the decision to take supervision of financial institutions away from the Bank of England when it was given independence to set interest rates. Burns hung on for a year, then left, and was replaced by another Treasury lifer, Sir Andrew Turnbull.

https://www.civilservant.org.uk/information-dismissal-permanent_secretaries.html

These people oversaw the following events:

• The economy collapses because of London banking practices (Black Wednesday).
• British people are made citizens of a new United States of Europe without a vote or referendum to obtain consent, via a treaty at Maastricht agreeing to "Ever greater political union."
• MI5 and MI6 are officially acknowledged.
• The Official Secrets Act 1989 restricted whistleblowing.
• Hong Kong is handed back to China.
• Wars in the former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq lead to increased abuse of the asylum system.
• Parliament's sovereignty is removed through adoption of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) via the Human Rights Act (HRA).
• The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 limited protest rights and introduced new police powers, notably affecting freedom of assembly.
• The death penalty is formally abolished.
• Parliament's regulatory powers are delegated to a union of quangoes, or public bodies functioning as small NGO councils (soviets).
• The 300-year union of the UK's nations is torn apart by "devolution" in London, Wales, and Scotland emerging from the Good Friday Agreement.
• Hereditary lords are abolished.
• The Bank of England is allowed to independently set monetary policy, as the Chancellor sells off the nation's gold.

Who Is Guilty For The EU?

Under the John Major government, the following civil servants held position and colluded with a foreign power to surrender British sovereignty:

• Robin Butler (Cabinet Secretary)
• Terence Burns (Treasury Secretary)
• Clive Whitmore (Home Office Secretary)
• Patrick Wright (Foreign Office Secretary)
• David Gillmore (Foreign Office Secretary)
• John Coles (Foreign Office Secretary)

Who Is Guilty For The Blair Years?

Under the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown governments, the following civil servants held position, flooded the country with mass immigration. and conspired to subvert and sabotage the Union and its constitution:

• Richard Wilson (Cabinet Secretary)
• Andrew Turnbull (Cabinet/Treasury Secretary)
• Gus O’Donnell (Cabinet/Treasury Secretary)
• Nicholas Macpherson (Treasury Secretary)
• John Kerr (Foreign Office Secretary)
• John Gieve (Home Office Secretary)

Who Is Guilty For Sabotaging Brexit?

Under the Teresa May government, the following civil servants held position and attempted to subvert the largest democratic exercise in the country's history to re-surrender British sovereignty:

• Jeremy Heywood (Cabinet Secretary)
• Mark Sedwill (Cabinet/Home Office Secretary)
• Tom Scholar (Treasury Secretary)
• Simon McDonald (Foreign Office Secretary)
• Philip Rutnam (Home Office Secretary)

Who Is Guilty For Lockdown?

Under the Boris Johnson government, the following civil servants held position and assisted other Lysenkoist bureaucrats to implement a Soviet police state in England on account of a mild flu:

• Simon Case (Cabinet Secretary)
• Tom Scholar (Treasury Secretary)
• Philip Barton (Foreign Office Secretary)
• Matthew Rycroft (Home Office Secretary)