It’s cowardly to call the civil service “The Blob,” says Simon Case

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Criticizing politicians who use the term, Simone Case said it is cowardly to call civil servants a “Blob”.

Case, the head of the civil service, said the “growing number of attacks” on civil servants by politicians had “undoubtedly undermined” the government’s work in the past five years.

“It is clear that I do not agree with a characterization that is degrading, inhumane and totally unacceptable,” he said at a hearing of the Public Administration and Accounts Committee.

“It would surprise me if current ministers were using such language, not least because if they were, it would suggest something akin to self-destructive cowardice.”

Former Tory chairman Sir Jake Perry claimed last month that the “Blob” had caused Boris Johnson’s political downfall, while Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg declared earlier this year that “the Blob has triumphed” after Brexit laws were scaled back. from the European Union.

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