To summarise the whole Raab "bullying" scandal is best described from Conservative MP for Peterborough, Paul Bristow, deploring the saga as cynically making the UK as "not a serious country". Certainly Mr Bristow is pristine clear about this, the mockery that the accusation of "bullying" affecting the civil service makes our nation a joke.
From Raab's Resignation posted on Twitter it highlights that:
"Ministers must be able to give direct critical feedback on briefings and submissions to senior officials, in order to set the standards and drive the reform the public expect of us."
"In setting the threshold for bullying so low, this inquiry has set a dangerous precedent. It will encourage spurious complaints against Ministers, and have a chilling effect on those driving change on behalf of your government — and ultimately the British people."
Raab is really spot on here with everything he says, the bar is set low for determining bullying and it allows for abstract precedents to be established, however it is important to note that when this investigation was triggered it was always going to be a losing battle for the Brexiteer Raab.
In his latest interview to the BBC he states small group of "anti-Brexit activist civil servants" who he has accused of bringing him down by "were targeting me (Raab) and other Ministers"
clearly this only meant the ideologically leftwards civil servants were active in trying to eat away at the conservative government
The assumed position of Raab bullying was that he was "intimidating" and "aggressive" towards civil servants. In response to all of this civil servants are paid to serve civilly, impartial. to help formulate and actualise the policies and views of the government at any time, and to overall make sure policy is working and make the country a better place. The sooner this is actually done instead of the defacto whining and start doing their jobs, the less likely it is for ministers to have to give them stick.
What this really underlines for Conservatives is that due to all the hogwash in the public sector it is practically impossible for the public sector to do anything. Instead of focusing on their jobs whether those be civil servants ,teachers or NHS doctors it seems today that it is only projecting about diversity, inclusion, gender, racism, climate emergency, egalitarianism, racial quotas and not real efficiency or hard work…However the civil servants down at London seem to see this as a win for the charlatan Progressive bureaucracy sabotaging this government from within.
Due to the liberal influence within the inner bureaucracy of the UK, we live in a society where the definition of bullying means telling lazy self vested civil servants to do their basic job. If any slight inconvenience or hard task is indulged like a baby the toys are thrown out the pram with endless inquiries and smear of hard working ministers who frankly have better things to do.
To reinforce all of this, this case of bullying was all entirely based on findings that he "bullied" the British ambassador as he secretly proposed putting Spanish boots on the ground in Gibraltar during Brexit talks to quote the Telegraph. Hugh Elliott, the British Ambassador to Spain, went beyond the Cabinet-agreed position to never have Spanish officers permanently stationed in Gibraltar. Now if it were up to me, I would have been more than furious to see British sovereign land to not only be interfered with but to have your own High Diplomat to subvert Cabinet Policy and allow foreign troops on our own land is something to not take easily with as arguably that is treason. Pointing out to a senior Civil Servant that he is breaking Civil Service code for treacherous activities is now a resignable offence, this nation really is not a serious country if we are upholding that.
Raab is a sharp minded man, who likes to get things done. He was one of the original Leave campaign MPs. During his time in prior Cabinets he had tried to achieve Brexit based legislation and Policy however it was always something those in Whitehall at senior level under him were not so happy about. He's clearly right on this matter, the sheer intransigence of the establishment liberal civil service requires a minister to push for change.
My question next is who else is going to get sacked for their individual ministerial actions? Or to reword it , who else is going to get an inner forced resignation for another artificially produced irrational accusation.