who is the Civil Servant?

Question

is Tony Blair a civil servant?? are all MPs civil servants??

Answer 1

MPs are not in the civil service. Civil Servants are non political employees of the governement and are therefore not allied with any political party, and will not be replaced should the party in power lose an elecation.

MPs are voted for, and are, obviously, politically allied to the party that they belong to. They do lose their ministerial positions if the party in power loses the election

Answer 2

Tony Blair, like MPs is a member of a political party, Labour.
MPs are voted for my the British electorate and the Prime Minister is the leader of the party with the most votes in the House of Commons.
Tony Blair and MPs are accountable to parliament and the electorate every five years as there is a chance another party will govern so their jobs are not permanent.
Civil servants are employed by the government on a permanent basis and work for ministers in certain departments, such as defence.
They draft speeches and legislation etc.

Answer 3

I suppose you could say that all MPs are civil servants, but they are not Civil Servants (note the use of capitals).

Civil Servants are appointed to discharge the policies of the Government, irrespective of its political colour. The most senior Civil servants directly advise Ministers and attend cabinet and Sub Cabinet level meetings. The more junior ones interview people in Job Centres, check passports, maintain military equipment, investigate benefits fraud, conduct driving tests, etc.

Answer 4

Will a pay rise 'boost their morale'? I don't think so, they just sit there and wait for the next pay rise (after elections?). Something more fundamental has to be changed in their attitude, but sorry I don't have any idea how that could be done in public service. On a side note, I found that the best ever justification of a pay rise for government servants: "because they have deserved it"... try running an enterprise and state this to your board of directors! Ah, how I wish I could be a public servant! The only thing I would have to care about would be dress code. As for the rest (in most cases) - performance, adherence to budgets, swift actions, customer care etc... I could give a dam and I still would "deserve a pay rise"!

Answer 5

No they are not the former is technically an adviser to the Sovereign and the latter are supposed (he! he! Ha! Ha! Ho! Ho! ) in dependant MPs and their job is the make the executive answerable. This lot have not even tried

Answer 6

good question.i stongly believe people are the civil servants and the politicians are the civil robbers.every politicians are robbers.example:m.k.azagiri

Answer 7

both