Letters From A Tory Daily views on British politics and the Conservative Party from a centre-right thinker who writes letters on his blog to politicians, journalists and many others.

“Please protect; these should not be shared externally. The ‘ideal visit’ paper in particular was the product of a brainstorm which took into account even the most far-fetched of ideas.”
- part of a leaked memo from a junior civil servant that has forced the Government to apologise to the Pope as this memo, along with several [...]

Dear Mark Serwotka,
As general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union, you have obviously decided to fire the starting gun on the hotly anticipated battle between public sector unions and the government.  Your members have voted for industrial action next month over changes to compensation scheme for staff who are made redundant. More than a quarter [...]

From the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills website:
Now you see it (taken at 10am):
 
 Now you don’t (taken at 3:30pm):

Dear Christine Pratt,
I have no doubt that your anger at the denials by No 10 about Gordon Brown’s alleged bullying is very genuine, because your role as chief executive of the National Bullying Helpline demonstrates a genuine concern about these sorts of cases.  However, I feel extremely uneasy about your intervention in what was a [...]

“I think the country wants someone that will push things forward, and not allow things to be stagnant and stale”
- Gordon Brown, explaining why you should vote Conservative at the general election he sometimes gets angry, in the face of accusations that he bullied and mistreated staff and was warned about his violent conduct by [...]

“What comes out of No 10 is lots of barmy ideas. It’s the worst possible kind of policy making, which is ‘here is a problem, let’s have a kneejerk reaction to it tomorrow on what we’re going to announce’ and quite frankly the less contact with No 10 the better.”
- how a director-general in one [...]

“I’m defending my staff who put their lives on the line for us.”
- Phil Woolas, Home Office minister, paying tribute to our Armed Forces the UK Border Agency, who he praised for being made up of “very brave men and women who protect our borders” on Radio 4 this morning.  Critics said it was ‘deeply [...]

“When you’ve got the families of soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan saying they haven’t got the kit they need, collecting reports of funny lights seen in the sky can’t be seen as a priority”
- UFO expert Dr David Clarke, a lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, on the Ministry of Defence’s decision to [...]

Dear Civil Service,
Accusations of creeping politicisation within your organisation have been around for quite a while.  Peter Oborne and others have expressed their concern at the increasingly questionable role that you perform for the Labour government, particularly in terms of your dwindling independence and authority.  What shocks me is the fact that your overtly political actions are now so [...]

“When you consider the risk they are running of being killed is one in 40 on the front line and you have got more than that being injured … how many civil servants would volunteer for that?”
- Hazel Hunt, whose son recently died fighting in Afghanistan, condemning the Ministry of Defence last night for awarding its [...]

Dear Lisa Greenwood,
Although a lot of people have lost their jobs during the recession, your sacking was not recession-related in the slightest.  After posting an anonymous message about Hazel Blears on the internet at the height of the furore over abuse of the second home allowances, you have been fired from your job as office [...]

Dear Civil Service,
As a huge employer in this country, I would think that many private sector firms would look to you as a standard-bearer for public sector employment.  However, it seems to me that you are not really as high and mighty as you might think.  There I was, looking through a new job advert [...]