Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "Watch again: Boris Johnson faces Keir Starmer at PMQs" video.

This came on without me clicking on it. I can't bear to listen to this liar, so I'm off.
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@andrewcheshire4762 That's rubbish. No one has ever lied as much as this government. They are the Olympic Champions of liars. In the past if a Minister was caught lying to Parliament or breaking the Ministerial code that was an automatic resignation matter and people did resign. Now no one resigns no matter how mendacious or corrupt they are and Boris keeps them in power. He even hangs on to Ministers he himself has called f*cking useless. The Civil Service is not in control. They do what Ministers want. They have no choice. They can draw Ministers' attention to possible downsides of their policies but in the end Ministers make the final decisions. They have changed a lot of Civil Servants. First of all they cut the civil service by 500,000 posts since 2011. Then, as there were not enough to deal with Brexit and the Pandemic they paid outside consultants to do much of the extra work and those consultants are paid at rates way way over civil service rates. If you don't do what Ministers want in the Civil Service you don't get on, and you can be put on a procedure leading to dismissal. I worked for a government department and 2 years after I retired there was not one person in charge at director level and above who was the same as when I retired. They had all gone. I don't think Brexit would necessarily have been the same if other parties were in power. For instance there were other Brexit options such as staying in the customs union which would have eliminated all the bureaucratic problems and the NI border problems. The Labour Party did offer a choice like that and a further Referendum as the implications of Brexit had become clearer. The Lib Dems always stuck with a Remain policy. There were options which meant it would not necessarily have been the same situation as we have now.
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