Time for a career break
If I was a senior civil servant I would resign, serving this lot of liars is not in the job description. While you might be able to persuade yourself that you must serve whichever government is elected, this one is beyond the pale and you really don’t want to be left holding the baby.
Now, is perhaps, the time for that career boosting couple of years in the corporate world or academia. Come back later, refreshed, improved and clean, above all clean.
Because although I hear that every senior civil servant is making sure that everything, and I mean everything, is signed off by their minister, the tar is going to stick; for a very long time.
Because when this lot finally fall, as they must, the new government is going to change a hell of a lot of things to make sure this cannot ever happen again.
The UK thought its system was too strong for a government like this to survive, but has found it is weak enough to help it prosper.
If I was working on the Opposition’s post election plans; I would be quietly and thoroughly preparing for the purging of whole institutions, rooting out corruption, public enquiries, radical reforms, legal investigations and the strengthening of the rule of law. Including setting the principles of government and administration in stone, with criminal sanctions for those who break the new rules.
Who would they trust to help do that?
The mandarins who made sure to get everything in writing?
I don’t think so.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.