festa5
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Ha! It definitely has the ring of truth to it (I'm a civil servant myself).I've a friend that is a senior civil servant and they say that The Thick of It reflected the idiocy and the absurbity of daily life in a department but feels they toned it down as otherwise people wouldn't believe it.
I think since Johnson its been a lot more like The Thick of It, but you don't need to work in a department to realise that.
Junior staff being given a suitcase to go and fill with wine.
BJ getting caught being given a BJ by Gavin Williamson.
Ministers watching porn on their work laptops.
Ministers going round the office leaving passive aggressive notes on empty desks.
All the Dominic Cummings stuff. Barnard Castle eye tests, princess nut nuts etc.
And that's just stuff in the public domain off the top of my head!