Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "The Gina miller story of an encounter in a lift in 2016 with mr Raab" video.

  1. Well, we do know indisputably that two of the complaints against Raab were upheld. Given the extraordinarily high bar that needs to be proved beyond doubt, we can be certain that there was at least substance to the other claims. What I noted was that Raab’s resignation letter demonstrated the obtuseness and passive aggression that shows he’s unfit for high stress working environments. I find the specious, “argument,” that he and Jacob Rees Mogg (among others) put forward in Raab’s defence particularly obtuse and galling. They keep saying, “It’s right to get angry with people who get it wrong or do their job badly,” and I haven’t yet heard a journalist return with the obvious riposte, “The complaints are not about Raab’s internal emotional state. They are about his behaviour.” Literally everyone in a high stress job gets angry with their colleagues from time to time. But there’s a world of difference between using the supervision procedure to identify mistakes and learn from them, setting goals for improvement and deciding on what to do differently in the future, and calling someone personal names and attacking the way they look, sound or behave in front of their colleagues. The defence being used misses that point and only serves to demonstrate that he either simply doesn’t get it (and therefore was unfit for his post) or he lacks the humility and wisdom to apologise and constructively move forward, which would improve the odds of him saving what looks to be an increasingly unsafe seat at the next election. As to Sunack’s response to all this, he has done a classic Sunack: tried to avoid upsetting either side, merely serving to upset both sides further with his obvious pusillanimity. He allowed Raab to, “get his retaliation in first,” with a resignation letter that stopped just short of calling his victims, “snowflakes,” instead of sacking him immediately. And we all know he will have spoken to Raab on the phone, letting him know he will have to sack him but asking him how he would like to handle it. At a time when Britain has never needed firm decisive leadership more, since WWII, we’re being lead by a flaccid vacillator who seems to want to demonstrate his own indecision and weakness at every opportunity.
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