Last minute reshuffle @DHGOVUK announced…
HAT TIP: Simon Clark
Following on from Wednesday’s post, we were nudged to read an excellent and revealing post over at Simon Clark’s Taking Liberties blog.
the subject of the blog is this tweet…
For those of you who don’t know the faces in this picture. From left to right they are …
Andrew Black (civil servant) tobacco programme manager at the Department of Health
Deborah Arnott from ASH
Jane Ellison MP (Conservative) and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health
Paul Burstow MP (Lib Dem)
Really? When did that re-shuffle happen? Does David Cameron know? Was Jeremy Hunt informed? If we randomly turn up, do we stand a chance of getting a job?
Seriously though….. Surely it is now time for Eric Pickles to sit down with William Shawcross to sort out “charities” that are indivisible from Government departments? Having “charities” that escape all the scrutiny of Government, but are part of the “dedicated team” is surely intolerable? But that, according to Jane Ellison (current Health Minister), is precisely what we have.
Ps. Not sure when Paul Burstow got promoted to the Department of Health – someone should update his wikipedia entry.
March 27th, 2015 at 10:12 pm
ASH is a deeply dishonest manipulative organisation. A “charity” that has almost no public support and has to rely on money misappropriated from people who thought that they were donating to cancer research together with unwilling “donations” from the tax payer.
Personally, I would be ashamed to be associated with its consistently disingenuous CEO but perhaps I set my standards higher than Mr Burstow.
Unlike him I am a liberal and unlike him I value honesty and integrity above minor pyrrhic “victories” in a pointless and destructive “war” being waged by authoritarians such as Deborah Arnott.