You need to understand that both in media and on internet platforms, various matters have occurred where civil servants have been the prime mover, but then in comments made on those referred-to platforms, it was stressed that Johnson was the head of these by the very nature of his office as Prime Minister, so the final blame lies solely with him. I cannot believe that you are unaware of those statements yet do not allow me the ability to follow the same line of reasoning in making the similar assumption that Johnson could be said to be in the position of Prime Minister when civil servants put forward their views on mask wearing.
I have no wish to continue with your deliberate obfuscation that you employ and at the ripe old age of 76, I have had many years' experiences of dealing with matters appertaining and did not spend my last thirty-five years at the top echelon of senior management without seeing somewhat younger staff attempting to make their points known. I will cite you an oft-quoted example of attempts of young middle-management overstepping the mark. In my capacity as Senior Head of Projects, it was normal that I would hold conversation with heads of middle management. One day, during such a discussion, a young 24-year-old trainee manager climbing the ladder of sucess, deliberately came up to us whilst the discussion between us on a certain manner was in progress and bombastically burst into the conversation with a somewhat puerile attempt to sway matters, even though he had only been in the position for three weeks and knew naught of the intracies involved in the matter under discussion,
I just told him to desist then said...."Jeremy, when the doctor is talking to the patient, he does not expect the disease to "chip in". Young Jeremy then lost those weeks of management training and was sent back to the department he came from originally.
