The curse of curiosity.
- and the confounded confusion induced by half answers. 'Twas, IMO, a simple enough question: and indeed had I had the sense to ask it of only one person, then curiosity satisfied, I could have ambled off and never considered the matter again. Alas...
"Why was Spence appointed as DAS"?
Only one thread is constant; to stem the blood letting. Rumour has it there was some heavy duty in-fighting, of the viscous, destructive kind. Spence was awarded the poison chalice to put an end to that and to satisfy some 'political' skulduggery at the top table. Or, so the story goes anyway...(Believe if if you like)..
Another aspect of the tales told borders on the bizarre - but, FWIW legend has it that the head of the DoIT has some scores to settle. Here the path divides in two; there is the camp which declares 'he' is a good egg, of excellent quality, intelligent and a 'doer'. Then there are those who believe (firmly) in quite the reverse.
The rest is hearsay - almost heresy: interesting stuff for the Pub (if they ever open again) but not for serious discussion - not just yet.
Non of this satisfactorily answered my question - Why is a career public servant, specialising in administration, taken off a very comfortable career pathway and thrown into the middle of warring wolf packs, one at every cardinal point of the compass?
Don't make sense to me - not at all; which doesn't signify, however, going on 'performance' so far it is clear that someone - somewhere has dropped a bollock of significant proportion. The 'error' count is already unacceptable. Too many wrong messages delivered; allowing Crawford to star at the last Estimates session and the sickening missive delivered being the tip of a very ugly, out of control iceberg. This is a career ending path for Spence; someone wants her 'gone' and has placed her, unsupported, at the target end of a very large shooting gallery. Solitary 'Whistle blowers' can't last long in that environment. So much for speculation; but my tote board is taking a pounding.
Anyone got a sensible explanation as to why Spence left the comfort of home turf to swim in a sea of sharks? Be buggered if I can find an answer which solves the equation.
Toot - Handing over - toot...
- and the confounded confusion induced by half answers. 'Twas, IMO, a simple enough question: and indeed had I had the sense to ask it of only one person, then curiosity satisfied, I could have ambled off and never considered the matter again. Alas...
"Why was Spence appointed as DAS"?
Only one thread is constant; to stem the blood letting. Rumour has it there was some heavy duty in-fighting, of the viscous, destructive kind. Spence was awarded the poison chalice to put an end to that and to satisfy some 'political' skulduggery at the top table. Or, so the story goes anyway...(Believe if if you like)..
Another aspect of the tales told borders on the bizarre - but, FWIW legend has it that the head of the DoIT has some scores to settle. Here the path divides in two; there is the camp which declares 'he' is a good egg, of excellent quality, intelligent and a 'doer'. Then there are those who believe (firmly) in quite the reverse.
The rest is hearsay - almost heresy: interesting stuff for the Pub (if they ever open again) but not for serious discussion - not just yet.
Non of this satisfactorily answered my question - Why is a career public servant, specialising in administration, taken off a very comfortable career pathway and thrown into the middle of warring wolf packs, one at every cardinal point of the compass?
Don't make sense to me - not at all; which doesn't signify, however, going on 'performance' so far it is clear that someone - somewhere has dropped a bollock of significant proportion. The 'error' count is already unacceptable. Too many wrong messages delivered; allowing Crawford to star at the last Estimates session and the sickening missive delivered being the tip of a very ugly, out of control iceberg. This is a career ending path for Spence; someone wants her 'gone' and has placed her, unsupported, at the target end of a very large shooting gallery. Solitary 'Whistle blowers' can't last long in that environment. So much for speculation; but my tote board is taking a pounding.
Anyone got a sensible explanation as to why Spence left the comfort of home turf to swim in a sea of sharks? Be buggered if I can find an answer which solves the equation.
Toot - Handing over - toot...