A truly dreadful piece of writing that neatly demonstrates why he had no respect at all from the rest of the senior civil service. - ThreadSky

samfr.bsky.social • 37 days ago

A truly dreadful piece of writing that neatly demonstrates why he had no respect at all from the rest of the senior civil service.

Reposted from John Rentoul

Simon Case, recent cabinet sec, on Trump’s version of delivery www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01...

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se13ed.bsky.social•37 days ago

I think what settled me on Case were those whinging WhatsApps he sent about the Number 10 operation during the pandemic. You're the Head of the Home Civil Service son, if you don't like it you can do something about it!

qgty.bsky.social•37 days ago

He did have a touch of "supply teacher with unruly class" about him - the weakness that got him the job in the first place.

amandagillender.bsky.social•37 days ago

It's nonsense!

d3rrick.bsky.social•37 days ago

A fascist writes something nasty in the Telegraph. How unusual.

danielincornwall.bsky.social•37 days ago

Maybe I’m being unfair (because paywall etc) but argument appears to be “issuing commands with massive publicity which don’t get implemented due to illegality/impracticality [with minimal publicity] will… *increase* trust”? I mean maybe short term trust, but not ideal after that.

danielincornwall.bsky.social•37 days ago

“What is really needed to increase trust in politicians is SAYING MORE LOUDLY THAT DIFFICULT STUFF WILL HAPPEN”

catanonim.me•37 days ago

Sans paywall: https://archive.md/jFuIV

danielincornwall.bsky.social•37 days ago

Thank you. Looks like the extract might make sense with any reference to “trust” removed but it’s hard to see how bigger spectacle = more transparency which seems to be the argument, as far as there is one.

paolosandro.bsky.social•37 days ago

'the advantages of being able to harness AI' is the new 'we will fix Brexit with smart border technology'

puckoon.bsky.social•37 days ago

Or the junior Civil Service.

laikax.bsky.social•37 days ago

extreme transparency!!! it is extreme, extremely unhinged.

Case can just fuck the fuck off.

thomaswpenny.bsky.social•37 days ago

The fact the Telegraph haven't bothered to edit it properly suggests they have a low opinion of him too.

adamchapman.bsky.social•37 days ago

The quality of Telegraph subbing across the board has been dire for years. And the cricket coverage bilge for even longer.

paliman.bsky.social•37 days ago

'maybe government by diktat would restore trust in politics' is such a fucking braindead take, I can't.

wryorigin.bsky.social•37 days ago

'Impressive political theatre'.

No one is doubting that Trump has a certain set of skills but there is nothing impressive about lies, deceit and manipulation, because that's what is at the heart of his success.

entwistlerex.bsky.social•37 days ago

Pretty sure you can delete *senior* Sam

williambone.bsky.social•37 days ago

Remove senior and its still pretty accurate

katherineschof8.bsky.social•37 days ago

Yikes that’s bad. Not inclined to read the rest.

samfr.bsky.social•37 days ago

Just buzzwords and drivel strung together to no purpose.

radiobeartime.com•37 days ago

Leaving aside his Civil Service nickname his ascendency was a classic example of the limitations of the Courtier persona.

troyella.bsky.social•37 days ago

His nickname being..?

radiobeartime.com•37 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/radiobeartime.com/post/3lgkibj7sh22f

troyella.bsky.social•37 days ago

Ah. Fair enough. Thank you.

davidbent.bsky.social•37 days ago

Presumably that Simon Case produces buzzwords and drivel strung together to no purpose is why Boris Johnson liked him?

samfr.bsky.social•37 days ago

There's a whole genre of columns at the moment along the lines of "If Trump did something he's not going to do that would be impressive". Of which this is perhaps the worst I've seen.

darksatanicmills.bsky.social•37 days ago

Did Chase even understand what his job was?

freewheeling.info•37 days ago

In a very crowded field, my favourite idiocy under the last Government was Sir Simon Case having to recuse himself from an investigation into whether any parties had taken place in Downing Street because he was conflicted having been at one them.

pifflepockle.bsky.social•37 days ago

Back to your sick bed Mr.Case. You appear feverish.

philipstokes.bsky.social•37 days ago

The Telegraph is the worst of the lot, worse than the Mail IMO. It's like Spiked in newspaper form.

sarabuschova.bsky.social•37 days ago

I was always very suspicious of this headline - https://royalcentral.co.uk/uk/walesfamily/prince-william-takes-one-for-the-team-after-boris-johnson-poaches-his-right-hand-man-148123/

judeet44.bsky.social•37 days ago

With only the slightest bit of tweaking, it could have been a right royal piss-take, along the lines of Private Eye's new front page. That style of very British writing needs to make a big comeback.

alexcork.bsky.social•37 days ago

My husband knew SC in their teens and apparently even then he was absolutely insufferable.

telson.bsky.social•37 days ago

It definitely seems the latest wheeze of editors short of op - ed material.

mkuzmicki.bsky.social•37 days ago

Amazing what you can get paid for these days. Theatre & full stadiums & Presidential orders - a Banana republic dream scenario.

ali1m.bsky.social•37 days ago

“authoritarian fix-nothing politics is leading to a declining trust in institutions and government. the solution is yet more authoritarian fix-nothing politics. I am very clever”

mihailim.bsky.social•37 days ago

Oh, there's a purpose alright: Normalizing fascism.

bridkid.bsky.social•37 days ago

Is he 'not well' again?

grahamxroy.bsky.social•37 days ago

So he has recovered from the mysterious ailment that prevented him from being eviscerated at the Covid enquiry.

pipkazan.bsky.social•37 days ago

And seemingly unaware that he could have said the exact same things about Mussolini.

almagroschool.bsky.social•37 days ago

being good at that gets you promoted in a lot of areas, not just the civil service

4harrisons.bsky.social•37 days ago

Or the junior civil service.

markshanahan.bsky.social•37 days ago

Why should voters, the civil service or our politicians succumb to the populist 'theatre' of the assembly of a kleptocratic autocracy?

leetaylorbythesea.bsky.social•37 days ago

He should never have been head of the CS, that was obvious early on

muralive.bsky.social•37 days ago

Really surprising that he got out scot-free after deeply entangling himself in all Boris scandals in No 10

telson.bsky.social•37 days ago

I think there was a certain amount of *stay not upon the order of your going*.
They wanted him out as quickly as possible.
And Yuh can see why.

telson.bsky.social•37 days ago

*I'm sure he can.
But I meant "you can see why".

alanjstedman.bsky.social•37 days ago

...not from anyone as far as I can make out

How simply predictable that he ends up writing for the Letegraph!

jim1132.bsky.social•37 days ago

The Telegraph would soon get the right hump if Keir Starmer started spitting out the UK equivalent of Executive Orders, routinely bypassing Parliament.

juneussell.bsky.social•37 days ago

Particularly if it was in front of a stadium full of adoring fans.

johnstey.bsky.social•37 days ago

As if having a deranged lunatic with a sharpie decreaing the will of a bunch of oliagarchs in front of a crowd of sycophantic deluded nutters was a good idea. Give us all strength.

deadlyvices.bsky.social•36 days ago

Trump is an arsonist. That's all.

stephenswan.bsky.social•37 days ago

He should never have been appointed Cabinet Secretary, a truly awful appointment. He let himself get too close to Johnson and then there was Partygate.

juneussell.bsky.social•37 days ago

Good grief

barryattricsurgery.bsky.social•37 days ago

How Simon Case could ever be allowed to masquerade as a supposedly "independent" Civil Servant is beyond any logic or reason. A Bojo apologist, Tory partisan, inquiry-dodging waste of taxpayers' money. Absolute disgrace

chrisw1.bsky.social•37 days ago

Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings pick for Cabinet Secretary reduced to writing approving pieces on Trump in the Telegraph.

Apparently Johnson has written an even more approving column on Trump in the Mail today .

How apt .

martinmckee.bsky.social•37 days ago

This remarkable stream of (sub) consciousness was written in a country that produced an entire book entitled « The blunders of our governments » whose main thesis was that failing to think things through was a very bad idea

redneeraj.bsky.social•37 days ago

jasonroberts3114.bsky.social•37 days ago

Sure. That’s just what we want in the UK; a supreme PM who can just sign off batsh*t crazy ideas as executive orders, dreamt up by lobbyists with no scrutiny & the ability to pardon criminals who’ve been through an independent judicial process. That sounds awesome; what could possibly go wrong? 🥴

lucysetonw.bsky.social•37 days ago

He certainly shouldn’t have had.

becksie1977.bsky.social•37 days ago

my 15 year old could write better.

denealus.bsky.social•37 days ago

The nice thing about the performative nature being "transparency" is that we can also hold him accountable for the fallout, since no one can deny that he signed them.

Though very little are focusing on the fact that he needed each one explained to him. Guy doesn't even know what he's signing.

joseph-yossarian.bsky.social•37 days ago

Though he hung around long enough to do a lot of damage

qgty.bsky.social•37 days ago

Trump and transparency? That's the same Trump that is sacking all current civil servants in oversight roles and filling the roles with stooges?

Word salad detached from reality.

jonty24.bsky.social•37 days ago

He came across as very bland and uninspiring on the few occasions I saw or heard him talk. Interesting to see what he actually thinks, now he's not in his Civil Service role. Not at all encouraging, it has to be said.

jonty24.bsky.social•37 days ago

I found that the people you were really inspired by or respected were at Deputy Director (DD) or below. Perhaps because you worked more closely with them. But they were also more genuine and open in their approach. Above DD, things felt flat.

offastyke.bsky.social•37 days ago

Ughhh… Case makes my skin crawl. Such a nasty snake.

julianshea.bsky.social•37 days ago

'The extreme transparency of Trump's approach', which is basically the same thing as the transparent extremism of Trump.

malcolmlh.bsky.social•37 days ago

Just because Trump signed an Executive Order doesn't mean its going to happen. States are fighting back already and taking him to court.

gizmotron.bsky.social•37 days ago

"I've never heard of Project 2025."

Executive orders follow to the letter Project 2025

Transparency...?

charleshedley.bsky.social•37 days ago

1 "The extreme transparency of Trump's approach" - yeah, right.
This side of the pond we only hear clichés spoken for the masses.
2 As for the "political theatre": thank goodness we have a PM not a president. HoC is the theatre.
Johnson tried a few theatrical populist stunts, but deservedly failed.

tnetennba.bsky.social•35 days ago

Encouraging the deification of political personalities sounds f'ing stupid

trialfree.bsky.social•37 days ago

Yeah Simon, it’s called Populism. Rarely delivers. Frequently hurts.

thebagfish.bsky.social•37 days ago

Only hurts if you're not a straight, white, able-bodied man which is why Simon loves it because he can watch other people getting hurt without fear of them coming for him. Empathy in public service appears to be dead.

cepmurphy.bsky.social•37 days ago

Commons debates on law are already filmed live, Simon!

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