Users of a Civil Service forum posted vicious attacks against Liz Truss, with one describing her as ‘one of the dumbest people I've ever had the displeasure of working with’, GB News can reveal.
On a Reddit forum for civil servants, online users wrote vile comments about the former prime minister following her recent criticism of Civil Service impartiality.
Liz Truss PAThe attacks on Mrs Truss included: “F**k her”, “She’s either a psychopath or utter moron”, “She's a f*****g idiot to put it politely”, “She's a snowflake”, “[Truss is] properly thicker than someone who's as thick as pig s**t”, and “she had a breakdown or something after she imploded politically”.
On Friday an online Civil Service forum featured a discussion of a letter Mrs Truss sent to the head of the Civil Service which criticised civil servants for allowing partisan language in the King’s speech.
In the letter, Mrs Truss thanked Simon Case, the Cabinet Secretary, for “confirming that you had directed officials to remove the personal and political attacks on me included in the King's Speech briefing notes published on GOV.UK”.
The King’s speech, which conventionally does not feature political attacks, described the phrase “disastrous Liz Truss mini-budget”.
The line was subsequently removed from the government website following a complaint from Mrs Truss.
Robert Bates, a political commentator, told GB News: “These comments are troubling for several reasons.”
“They reveal the sheer hostility that conservative-leaning politicians receive from the civil service and the sheer institutional resistance to any policy platform that is not predicated on open-borders, high taxes, and an open embrace of the woke agenda.”
“They also reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of what happened in Autumn 2022.”
“The LDI crisis was caused by an incompetent Bank of England governor, more concerned with his TikTok page and combating climate change, than actually taking steps to guarantee currency stability.”
“If we are going to have any hope of remaining a serious country, with international clout, then we have to frankly overhaul Whitehall, which has shown itself to be nothing more than a club for twenty-something-year olds to attend diversity book clubs and BLM coffee mornings, parrot hackneyed James O'Brien-esque talking points to one another, and to attack our country, its history, and its institutions.”
A pedestrian walks past a sign on Whitehall, in Westminster, central London.PAThe former PM demanded Case open an investigation into how the political language made it into the speech, and wrote: “I am very disturbed that this material impugning my name found its way into a Civil Service document published on the first day of the new Parliament.”
She continued: “That not a single person who drafted, edited, proofed or signed off so significant a document saw fit to challenge the slurs against me would only go to suggest that there is a settled view in Whitehall which accepts the narrative of my political opponents without challenge.
One commenter on the Civil Service online forum responding to Truss’s letter wrote: “I’m bemused why she thinks treating every civil servant around her like s**t (I have it on good authority from colleagues she was generally a nightmare to work with on a huge power trip in every role she occupied) and then expects the same people to hark back to her time in the big seat as some kind of hallowed era despite all the evidence to the contrary."
They continued: "Woman lives on a different planet to the rest of us”.
Another online poster agreed with Mrs Truss, saying: “She has a point. However much longevity a lettuce might have displayed against her premiership as the more political amongst us might bleat about, this was a breach and must not happen again”.
One other poster supported the former prime minister, writing: “I actually think she had a point on the language, it was simply too political for the civil service. What it was highlighting is fine, just the language needed to be toned down a bit.”
“But on this, she can sod off.”
