Image offends brolly brigade
NZPA London Sir Humphrey Appleby of the civil service got a rocket yesterday — from a real Whitehall decisionmaker. The stuffy star of television’s “Yes, Minister” has been giving the bowler hat and brolly brigade a bad name, and now civil servants are out to give them-
selves a new image. They launched a nationwide recruiting drive yesterday to try to convince career-seeking youngsters that red tape is fun. Mr Dennis Trevelyan, the Civil Service Commissioner, said: “The ‘Yes, Minister’ programme seems to have given people the idea that our profession is boring.
“People think we sit behind desks all day bossing Ministers about. I am trying to get across the message that it is not like that at all.”
Mr Trevelyan was in Leeds at the start of a recruiting tour of universities and colleges.
“There are all sorts of jobs available and the starting pay is good,” he said.
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