I just don’t think the optics look good on this. If ever the government needed a positive PR news story this isn’t it!
Sure claim collective responsibility on whether to defund the NHS and whip your colleagues for that in peace time, but taking a humanitarian view and calling for a ceasefire during a humanitarian crisis should never be met with the loss of a job. It’s just dumb politics. You’d have thought they could have reprimanded him privately, or put out a statement saying this wasn’t government policy. But to go to the extreme of firing is just brain dead.
I just don’t think the optics look good on this. If ever the government needed a positive PR news story this isn’t it!
Sure claim collective responsibility on whether to defund the NHS and whip your colleagues for that in peace time, but taking a humanitarian view and calling for a ceasefire during a humanitarian crisis should never be met with the loss of a job. It’s just dumb politics. You’d have thought they could have reprimanded him privately, or put out a statement saying this wasn’t government policy. But to go to the extreme of firing is just brain dead.