Ah but Rosie - do that and you won't be a Civil Servant for long. They are cutting jobs by the thousands - 73 Tax offices being reduced to 15 NATIONWIDE, a freeze on hiring, pay rises not being honoured, enforced early retirement (go before you're pushed), a reduction in Borders Agency staff leaving holes in our "borders" you could drive several truck loads of illegal immigrants through, half the number of staff being made responsible for double - or more - the amount of work (my office now receives and is expected to deal with the post for 6 London areas, on less than the ideal number of staff for 2, when we already export work we cannot cope with), staff forcibly made to travel for over an hour to get to work, offices relocated to areas where there is no infrastructure for transport or getting food... Long gone are the days when being a Civil Servant meant a job for life, regardless of behaviour.

I will have to serve the Government no matter which party wins the next election, it's what I'm employed to do. Did you really think that each new party taking power replaces every Civil Servant with those who think as they do? As a Civil Servant, I am not employed by a political party, but by the duly elected Government of the land. My political leanings have no bearing on my work or my duties. Neither will I risk my job or liberty by committing theft, regardless of what incentive there may be.

LTS