Whitehall – here be the mandarin puppet masters …

 

Yesterday, the PM gave a perfect example of how living inside the Westminster Bubble damages brains. It’s too easy to blame covid for his astonishing attempt to re-write history because so many other Westminster Bubble dwellers also seem to suffer from this malaise. That’s my lenient explanation – my cynical one is that our beloved mandarins, especially those at the Home Office, have exploited this phenomenon to better spin and cloak their activities.

While BJ claimed yesterday that in fact he sacked Hancock (see e.g. here), rewriting history in the process and showing his contempt for us by producing this lie, he’s not alone. There’s Ms Patel at the Home Office who is now going to really ‘do something’ about immigration.

Yes, really: she’s going to do what any proper civil serpent would do – moving the chairs in the Home Office. She allegedly will amalgamate the two entities who are meant to deal with immigration: the Border Farce which is supposed to stop illegals at the border and Immigration Enforcement which is supposed to dal with them once they’re here.

Rest assured: it’s going to work this time, surely, because the Home Office mandarins are working flat out to prepare for this ‘major overhaul’. Ms Patel’s handlers have ‘leaked’ to the MSM that this whole new and shiny thing will be revealed next week. 

It’s quite extraordinary that such a proposal is already being handed to the MSM, a whole week in advance – as if the mandarins are keen to gauge public opinion for their scheme, something the covid emperors and their spin doctors, sorry: aides and SAGEs have been doing for 18 months with such success. 

This latest ‘plan’ was presented to the DT yesterday evening, duly copied by the DM (link) while The Times again scurried around to find some heavy ‘sources’ who already condemn it (see below). The way this Patel-Initiative is described is revealing:

“The Home Office has ordered a major overhaul of the Border Force amid growing frustration over the failure to stem the flow of illegal Channel migrants. The two directors general of Border Force and Immigration Enforcement are to quit their posts and will be replaced by a single supremo tasked with curbing the crossings and overhauling Britain’s “broken” asylum system. Consultants are also said to have been recruited to investigate a merger of the two Home Office directorates as the Government seeks to regain the initiative after a doubling in illegal migrant crossings this year and the failure to deport any to “safe” third countries.” (paywalled link)

This begs two questions: was it Ms Patel who ‘ordered’ this rearrangement of deckchairs or is it the brainchild of her mandarins? And: why does the Home Office, surely stuffed with ‘experts’, need ‘consultants’ to help them out? One would like to know where these consultants come from: think tanks? Management firms? Are they ‘chums’, like those who’ve ‘helped’ Hancock in his hour of covid ‘needs’? Perhaps they’re employed by Serco:

“Serco Group plc is a British company with headquarters based in Hook, Hampshire, England. Serco primarily derives income as a contractor from the provision of government services, most prominently in the sectors of health, transport, justice, immigration, defence, and citizens services.” (link)

Ah! Like a giant hoover this company is hoovering money from our wallets, for activities which surely should be run by Whitehall. They’re also going to profit enormously from the NHS T&T scam, having been ‘rewarded’ with a new contract to provide tests for the next 18 months as Lockdown Sceptics report here. Clearly, the covid empire is working hard at prolonging their dictatorial powers until the end of 2022, so forget their shenanigans on ‘gifting’ us some sort of freedom on July 19th: it ain’t gonna happen! 

Back to Priti’s ‘overhaul’ – it’s perfect “Mandarin Theatre”. The following quote shows that it’s not Priti who runs the show but her mandarins who are clearly doing as they like while shirking responsibility. ‘Run away’ is their motto, demonstrating that this brand new ‘initiative’, this ‘new’ bill, isn’t prepared because of Ms Patel and BJ are fed up with this scandal but because civil serpents cannot possibly be seen to be in the wrong:

“Paul Lincoln, director general of Border Force, told staff last Friday he was moving on after four years in the role to “pursue new opportunities on secondment from the department”. Tyson Hepple, director general of Immigration Enforcement, is taking up a job elsewhere in Whitehall.” (paywalled link)

Clearly, four years of ‘success’, of letting in illegal immigrants, of making the Border Farce look like a sieve, deserves promotion to another cushy job, in Whitehall or elsewhere – with Serco, perchance? Moreover, as this next quote demonstrates, this ‘new Bill’ isn’t due to the scandalous failure of the Home Office’s Border Farce but solely due to an exercise in ‘change chairs for mandarins’, mis-labelled by calling it ‘restructuring’:

“A single director general would take over their roles “as part of transformation changes within the Home Office to strengthen our borders and enforcement capabilities and deliver high-quality and efficient services,” said Mr Lincoln. A source said: “The whole of the Home Office is going through a restructure. As part of that, they are looking at merging Immigration Enforcement and Border Force into one single directorate for borders and enforcement.” (paywalled link)

So let’s not believe that the rise in illegals crossing the Channel, being taxied to our shores by the Border Force patrol boats, has caused this re-think in the Home Office! It’s simply ‘business as usual’ in Whitehall, nothing to see here really, but let’s blow smoke up the skirts of the plebs who have to pay for it all.

One of the changes proposed in this new Bill is to ‘process asylum seekers offshore’, e.g. in Africa. Remember – this Bill hasn’t yet seen the light of day nor have our peacocks had a chance to debate it. Still, The Times has had a glimpse and was thus able to find a heavy-weight ‘source’ condemning it:

“The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) accused the government of trying to shirk its duty to look after asylum seekers by sending them to developing countries. […] Matthew Saltmarsh, a spokesman for the UNHCR, told Today on BBC Radio 4: “We see this kind of initiative as burden shifting rather than responsibility sharing. The international refugee support system is predicated on co-operation and without that it basically breaks down. But the UK it seems is reportedly planning to offshore its asylum support to a much less well-resourced African country.” (link, paywalled)

Gawd – if it’s not Brussels’ boots on our necks any longer then let’s submit to one a size bigger: the UN. Of course, Labour MPs had to put their oar in as well. Remember that they also cannot have seen the text of the bill yet because it’s still being prepared by the HO mandarins. Speak of putting in their ‘retaliation’ first:

“Nick Thomas-Symonds, the shadow home secretary, said Labour would vote against the bill. He said: “This is yet more evidence of the lack of compassion and competence at the Home Office under Conservative ministers. These plans are unconscionable and an attempt to create a smokescreen to distract from the fact ministers have failed to reopen safe and legal routes, failed to reach an effective agreement with France to deal with criminal gangs and failed to introduce effective border measures to stop the Delta variant getting a foothold.” (link, paywalled)

Yes, dear – we know: Labour would’ve done so much better! ‘Tis strange though that Labour seems to believe that our country can dictate to France and other EU countries, to take back their illegals. I hope Labour doesn’t think we should have remained in the sacred EU and all would be well! They don’t seem to be aware of the thousands of illegals still streaming across the Mediterranean, of the conflict inside the EU as to who all should take those “refugees” and how they should be ‘distributed’. 

So there we are: another beautiful Mandarin theatre to make perfectly clear to all who have eyes to see that it’s not the hapless politicians, our elected representatives, who run things. Did anyone think that the not-lamented Hancock would’ve said anything different about lockdowns than Mr Javid?

Have you never wondered how come that all our ‘ministers’ are constantly gracing the MSM with photos of where all they’re spending their time, visiting this, that and the next ‘enterprise’ – instead of actually working in their offices? They don’t need to because they all are puppets, dangling from the strings of their mandarins.

The ‘Immigration Bill’, this latest “Priti Initiative”, is just another instance where we can see the fine mandarin-hands at work. And how reassuring it is to know that where they fail they can ask ‘consultants’ to help out and perhaps even switch careers and become consultants themselves!

Perhaps it’s not parliament or our political parties where iron brooms need to be applied forcefully but Whitehall itself?

 

KBO!

 

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