He could have been a pit manager

[selby]

Trump that is,when the attorney general does not do what you want,GET RID down the road, and make an example of her.
    Whether you agree or not,he gets things done, the minnions will be s****ing themselves over what to do now.
    Do I stand up and keep my brilliant  job or get the sack? hmm big one that.

[drfchound]

I said much the same at work this morning Selby.
I guess he will be surrounded by "yes men" from now on.
The beginning of a dictatorship ?

[selby]

I can just imagine the secretaries of state listening at the door when a bollocking is being dished out.
   I will always remember the manager at Brodsworth giving it out in the morning meeting,the windows were open and you could here him 100yds away,talk about a hairdryer, he used every swear word invented and then some.
   The week after the pit broke its production record,hilarious.

[Glyn_Wigley]

I said much the same at work this morning Selby.
I guess he will be surrounded by "yes men" from now on.
The beginning of a dictatorship ?

Bye-bye the principle of checks and balances!

[selby]

Glyn, would you be behind the door or in the room?

[Glyn_Wigley]

Eh?

[selby]

Glyn, what the political clubs will have to understand with this bloke is that you have to be in the room/loop if you want to be heard at all.
   He is setting his stall out early to overcome the opposition, and all the marches,sniping in the press,and speeches against his policies are allowing him to identify just who is on his side at the top of the tree.
   The Attorney General showed her colours and put her head above the rampart
hence off with her head.
    Failure is not an option  with this guy,fun and games will be had for a few months before it all settles down.

[Glyn_Wigley]

What do you think he'll do when Congress has to slap him down?

[selby]

I do not think they will on anything meaningful Glyn, for all the street meetings and rallies against Trump,we are not seeing the popular groundswell supporting Trump on B.B.C. with their slanted view on news.
    Both in the U.S.A.and the U.K. the political liberal elete have disregarded the common working man for too long, and if they want to escape being sidelined altogether they are going to have to accept change.

[Glyn_Wigley]

Well, when the common working man finds out that change just for changes sake still screws them just as much (if not more) as anything that went before, who will they turn to then?

[BobG]

I understand that every established FDA senior civil servant in this country has refused to take a role in the Brexit team. They see it as career suicide. This means that the civil servants appointed are either not amongst the best and so see it as their one chance to get to that paygrade, are about to retire and so don't really care where they are as they wind down the clock, or, are new boys with little experience. Now, when you have a leader who is so panic stricken that she headed off into the lions den within days of the lion inviting her to step into his parlour, you can form your own conclusion about just how effective this whole episode is going to be.

Did you spot what George Soros last week by the way? Worth looking up if you didn't.

BobG

[bobjimwilly]

Both in the U.S.A.and the U.K. the political liberal elete have disregarded the common working man for too long, and if they want to escape being sidelined altogether they are going to have to accept change.

I find it perturbing that Trump supporters, primarily working men and women, have voted for a man with a gold escalator up to his gold penthouse, someone who brags about not paying taxes, who wants to get rid of social programs designed to help the common man, and who has already appointed millionaires and billionaires to the highest offices in the land to run things like education and social care, which they they all have openly admitted in the past they don't care about and have no working knowledge of.

If you are a working man, and you voted for Trump, how are you not either dangerously naive or a fool?

[selby]

Bob,I will look at the Soros article later,but my take on senior civil servants is that they have been poor at their jobs for ages.
   A group of people who have under achieved, and are part of the privileged elite or hang on to the politicians coat tails when they get to the top of the departments.
 

[roversdude]

As loopy as some of managers I worked for that much is true