Digby Jones gives the civil service a kicking

Sounds like Lord Digby Jones, the former trade minister, gave a fiery performance during his select committee appearance earlier.  This quote on his experience of the civil service is simply too good not to reprint: 

“I was amazed by how many people frankly deserved the sack – and yet that was the one threat they never worked under, because it doesn’t exist as long as they have not been criminal.”

“I think you will find that the civil service is full of honest, decent people who work hard.”

I guess that’s ok then…

Hat-tip: The Telegraph’s Christopher Hope