Mandarin jollies

OF COURSE the civil service is antiBrexit. It’s a simple question of selfinterest. Membership of the EU has generated a limitless demand for work for the civil service: from the process of making and applying laws to blue-sky thinking about the European dimension.

Who wouldn’t look forward to trips to Brussels on generous publicly funded expenses and aspire to jammy secondments?

Those nasty Brexiteers would not just deprive them of these jollies, but in many cases remove the justification of their existence. Why would we need so many civil servants when we no longer have to take the EU and its rules into account at every turn?

No wonder the former mandarins are squawking in outrage. J. pEArCE, Cowes, isle of Wight. THE three former civil service chiefs should know all about ‘selling snake oil’. They forecast house prices falling by £50,000, unemployment going up, shares dropping and various other disasters if we dared to vote to leave the EU. Instead the opposite has been the case. p. GrANGEr, West Malling, Kent.