The real power of Government.

• Guest 649

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  20 February 2011     20:2193531
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  You can vote in the blues to be the goverment and you can vote in the reds for government but once in are they the real power of government,they would like you to think that but it would be wrong,who then is the real power?
  Well they are never voted in and you never see them,and you might not even know their names ,you never hear about them,they are never on our TV sets,but they are the real power behind any party in power,and their job is handed down you could not just walk into it,
  Who are the ones without faces then?
  They are the 12 Permanent Secretarys of State.
  They are there all the time and can never be removed.
  All the very big offices of power in the Government have one ie=State,Foreign office etc.
  What ever party is in power they stay in their jobs. They tell the minister of any department what to do and say,they have that power because they have always been in that department all their working life, then they hand it down to the next in line and so on. They are the real power behind any UK Government.
• Bern

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  20 February 2011     20:2593534
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  And they provide the continuity that agenda-led politicos will never be able to offer.
• Guest 649

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  20 February 2011     20:3093537
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  I think you could be right on that one Bern,but not over the EU that is why we went in because they all said yes to it .At that time there was abig story in the press about them but some how it all got over looked in the following years,up till tonight.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  20 February 2011     20:3693541
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  takes us all back to the days of sir humphrey appleby and chums manipulating the politicians.
• Guest 649

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  20 February 2011     20:3793543
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  But Howard what I am saying is true it has always been that way.
• Guest 649

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  20 February 2011     21:0193556
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  I would like to see alot more of your views on this one please.
• Guest 649

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  20 February 2011     21:3893568
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  46views already and only five replies come on we need alot more than that folkes
• howard mcsweeney1

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  20 February 2011     21:4693573
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  jim hacker could do nothing about it either.
  
  i wouldn't worry to much about the permanent secretaries, their job is to listen to the wild radical views of their political masters and then temper them with reality.
  
  it is one thing to come with a great idea in a political blog, another thing to actually make the idea work.
• Guest 696

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  20 February 2011     21:5593577
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  Alright here's a view.
  Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
  Rule Britannia!
  Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ
• Jan Higgins

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  20 February 2011     22:1793585
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  I loved that series Howard, that is my view.
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