This fuss is daft. Kemi Badenoch said civil servants should be jailed because she’s silly – that’s all.

Here’s what it’s all about:

The Shadow Housing Secretary sparked a backlash after saying between 5% and 10% of civil servants are “should-be-in-prison bad”. This would mean between 25,000 and 50,000 were put behind bars, in spite of the prison space crisis the Tories left behind. Unions said Ms Badenoch – who has previously been accused of bullying Whitehall workers – is using public servants as “vote fodder”.

Speaking at a fringe event at the Tory Party Conference, the right-winger whined: “There’s about 5-10% of them (civil servants) who are very, very bad. You know, should-be-in-prison bad. Leaking official secrets, undermining their ministers … agitating. I had some of it in my department, usually union-led, but most of them actually want to do a good job. And the good ones are very frustrated by the bad ones.”

The comments were branded “deplorable” by the PCS union. A spokesman said: “Kemi Badenoch just can’t let it lie, can she? When she was in power she was accused of bullying civil servants. Now she’s out of power she’s continuing her personal feud against them, many of whom are our members. This is a below the belt attack on hard-working civil servants who can’t answer back. We won’t stand for our members being used as vote fodder for the Tory party leadership.”

How ridiculous. Her words about prison come across as nothing more than hyperbole; like when someone you’ve offended says you ought to be shot.

But the media are concentrating on this.

Far more serious are the actual allegations against civil servants – of leaking official secrets, undermining ministers, and otherwise agitating at the will of trade unions, who are understandably incandescent.

Badenoch needs to learn there is a price to pay for rash words.

I doubt it will work, but perhaps being made to account for her claim will get the point across.

Source: Kemi Badenoch blasted over claim up to 50,000 civil servants should be jailed

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