Quote Originally Posted by Vindec View Post
She is not a civil servant as such. She is a politically appointed person hired to do a specific job. She was formally Chief Executive of Talk Talk.
Thanks. Reports directly to Boris Johnson not Matt Hancock as well.

On Lisvane Blue's point I was being a bit liberal with his point about the civil service blindly following political fads but only because it seems to turn the rest of his point on its head.

Johnson and the gang warble this "world class, world beating" mantra so often it must come from the top. So when the political appointee Dido Harding who was in charge of the programme and reporting directly to the Prime Minister said she wanted something world class and exceptional instead of something others already had or were developing it was coming from the same brave new post-Brexit hymn sheet.

The idea that it was some kind of cabal of civil servants driving this by blindly following political fads is the usual cop out for those in political control and exercising that control directly through politically appointed Programme Directors like Dido Harding