Tactics

Many happenings of Sir Humphrey Appleby were never known to the world. Here is one:

On one occasion, a friend of our Chief Cabinet Secretary went for a backbencher, and asked the latter to help. Although civil servants should be politically neutral, Sir Humphrey gave a useful tips to his friend, "Look, there is huge pressure from the public for policy X, and the government will inevitably approval it - in order to gain some popularity. It does no harm for you to send letters to all voters in your district, saying that policy X is important and therefore you will do everything to fight for it ...

... And, when the policy is approved, you could claim that you are responsible for this success !"

Sounds good, eh ? Our ex-colonial politician applies this trick a few times before.

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Vivian was not at all happy with my blog Labour; she thought I was going to support a non-clinical candidate. She reminded me that she received a letter, which fought for free cancer drugs, a few months back - from a microbiologist.