Ex-Tony Blair adviser is new top boss at UK spy-hive GCHQ GCHQ's eavesdropping concrete doughnut in Cheltenham is getting a new boss from autumn this year, the government confirmed today. Robert Hannigan is set to replace Sir Iain Lobban, who has been in the post for nearly six years. Lobban has faced political heat around expert spy-squealer Edward Snowden's revelations, as well as …
If I remember correctly Kim Philby got his job on the say so of one of the top security Knobs because 'he knew his people'.
It just goes to show how ingrained this kind of thing is and how so many of the top jobs go to those in 'favour' 'friends' 'advisors' etc
They try and tell you this kind of thing doesn't happen but increasingly in the upper echelons this is being promoted. Jobs for the Boys, old school tie, friend of the family, mates....
To top it all they are trying to select Tony Blairs son to stand for a Labour safe seat in the next election.
Nepotism at its worst especially when you consider Kinnocks son has also got into the act.
They are all at it, establishment established practices.
We already have our share of non-qualified administrators. The last place I worked was in health insurance. One of the VP's had a degree in.... wait for it.... geology. Rocks and insurance... good professional fit. Our government has the same good-old-boy politics. Consider the Kennedy's as a prime example. Then there's the Senator on the NASA budget committee who's a fundamental type and thinks the universe is only 6000 years old.
So the bar for behaving like a right s**t is pretty high.
The chief spookocrat who was behind the Snoopers Charter had a degree in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge but I doubt this one will have even that level of technological awareness.
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