Favourite Quotes from Government and Politics in Britain by John Kingdom(2).
"The retention of the generalists' hegemony was justified variously.
Only they knew why around the Whitehall system, only could understand the (equally generalist) minister's mind; that is, the best people to lead the blind world be the blind."
That was part of the chapter about The Whitehall, Ministers and Mandarins in British Government.
How more honest can the comments of British can be about their own Government, I thought.
Reading further, I found something even more interesting about the Whitehall, "...a civil servant could be imprisoned for disclosing the colour of Whitehall toilet paper."
Further, in the same chapter Permanent Secretary, Sir Richard Mottram was quoted to have left a note to his colleague during the Sixth-Moore affair. It happened to be published in the Sunday Times in February 2002:
"Oh! sir Humphrey!
We're all f*****. I'm f*****. You're f*****. The whole department's f*****.
It's been the biggest cock-up ever and we're all completely f*****.
I really can't wait what else is this book going to uncover.
Winchester University Journalism Course People and Politics
TBC, Politics in Britain by John Kingdom
