From the Global Government Forum in March 2023:
One in six UK civil servants have witnessed unacceptable behaviour by ministers in the last 12 months, according to a survey by the FDA union. The FDA, which represents senior civil servants, has called for an investigation into the way the civil service deals with complaints of bullying and harassment against ministers, with 70% of survey respondents saying they had no confidence in the process.
But from a Freedom of Information request to the Scottish Government in 2023:
Number of formal complaints made by civil servants about a current or former Minister’s behaviour.
Number of complaints July 2023 to December 2023
complaints received: 0
ongoing investigations: 0
completed investigations: 0
I can find one media report of a case in Scotland – Fergus Ewing!
Why does this happen at Westminster?
The Institute for Government in November 2022, suggested
Government’s particular pressures include a tendency for civil servants to treat ministers as, in my colleague Dr Catherine Haddon’s phrase, ‘child gods’: simultaneously putting them on an elevated pedestal while trying to shape their movements and decisions. The status of a minister, and the fact that they direct, but do not manage, civil servants also creates tension.
I’d argue for another reason, also:
But I’m helpless, like a rich man’s child
Bob Dylan – Temporary Like Achilles (1966)
The majority of Rishi Sunak‘s new Cabinet are privately educated, with 65% of his top-tier team having gone to an independent school. That’s over nine times the number in the general population, new analysis has shown. Mr Sunak himself was educated at the £45,936-a-year Winchester College.
Sources:
https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-government-ministers-complaints/
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/rishi-sunak-government-ministerial-behaviour
https://www.itv.com/news/2022-10-26/majority-of-rishi-sunaks-new-cabinet-went-to-private-school
Talking-up Scotland 
Scotland does not have enough civil service jobs. They are all centred around the Mall in London. Scotland is paying for it. The bureaucracy of the Westminster Gov costs £Billions. Scotland is paying for it. Westminster is spending half of Scotlands revenues. Scotland has to pay for what it does not need and does not have the monies for what it needs.
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Beautifully articulated!
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Scotland paying a share of London-based Civil Servants working on reserved matters – losing out on employment (an independent Scotland would need e.g. a defence ministry too); losing out on the income tax revenue; and losing out on the direct and probably also the indirect multiplier to the detriment of Scotland’s wider economy.
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“Yes, and how many years must a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea?
And how many years can some people exist
Before they’re allowed to be free?
Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn’t see?”
Bob Dylan….Blowin’ In The Wind
1963
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Aww, you didn’t have to tell us it was Bobby D. We like to guess that kind of thing.
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Sorry…I thought it was too obvious!!!
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
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