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My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.
Lord Rothschild had access to all manner of leaders and experts. He was responsible only to the Prime Minister and answerable to neither the electorate nor the civil service chiefs.
By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.
I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.
It's all papers and forms, the entire Civil Service is like a fortress made of papers, forms and red tape.
The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.
When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
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My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.
Canada has a real civil service, which the United States doesn't have, an independent civil service. Canada also has a stronger federal system.
I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade.
There has been corruption in the Belgian civil service and at government level for decades. The Royal family do what they can to hold things together, and they don't do a bad job.
When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.
The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.
The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction