Whitehall Officials Plan to Disrupt Government if Farage Wins Election
Whitehall officials are reportedly considering a sustained campaign of strikes to paralyze the government if Nigel Farage's Reform UK wins the next election. The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the largest trade union for civil servants, is set to vote on a motion calling for an "industrial defense strategy" aimed at sabotaging a Farage administration. This move comes as workers prepare to strike with minimal notice if necessary.
Farage has pledged to address what he calls "institutional Left-wing bias" among the so-called "Blob" within the Civil Service, local authorities, and schools. However, the motion being discussed at the PCS annual conference suggests that a Reform UK government would face an intense conflict with Whitehall.
The motion highlights the significant rise in polling and political influence of Reform UK, noting that a Reform government is likely following the next General Election. It states that such a government would pose an "existential threat" to the job security, pay, and professional integrity of every PCS member. The document adds that Reform would wage a "culture war aimed at demoralizing public servants."
It further declares: "The specific threat of a Reform government requires a laser-focused industrial strategy... we must be prepared to defend the Civil Service as a vital, neutral institution through direct industrial and legal action." If the motion is approved, the union's ruling NEC will develop the resistance strategy by the end of the year.
The strategy will include launching a targeted recruitment drive in departments most at risk of budget cuts, ensuring the union has the mandate for sustained industrial action. Farage, who made significant gains in this month's local elections, has already clashed with a "Marxist" teachers' leader whose union has vowed to mobilize members to stop him from becoming Prime Minister.
At the annual conference of the National Education Union (NEU), delegates called for the trade union movement to "throw its full weight behind stopping a Reform UK government." They also urged teachers to "collate and disseminate anti-racist teaching materials" and to "encourage school and community-based anti-deportation campaigns."
Farage has promised to eliminate "politicized classrooms" if he becomes Prime Minister, targeting Daniel Kebede, the NEU's hard-Left general secretary. He stated: "The NEU should focus on the day job of teaching instead of trying to indoctrinate children. Daniel Kebede is an open Marxist and shouldn't be anywhere near our education system. Change is coming for the NEU – a Reform government will introduce a patriotic curriculum, no longer will teaching unions be able to politicise the classroom and talk down our country."
Kebede responded: "Nigel Farage will be a disaster for Britain. He would cut our schools to the bone along with the NHS."
Civil Servants Receiving Over £150,000 in Pensions
New figures reveal that civil servants are receiving taxpayer-funded pensions exceeding £150,000 annually, despite reforms aimed at curbing gold-plated public sector payouts. The Civil Service Pension Scheme, one of the largest of its kind, is projected to cost taxpayers £7 billion this year, up from £6.8 billion last year.
Among those drawing from the scheme, 23 individuals receive more than £150,000 a year, with a further 263 collecting over £100,000. These pensions are guaranteed, inflation-linked payments for life. Former Institute for Fiscal Studies director Paul Johnson criticized the numbers as "extraordinary," stating the scheme was "paying out far more than you would ever imagine is reasonable."
He added: "This is evidence of a pension scheme that, at least historically, has got out of control. I think the real issue is we've got a totally wrong balance between pay and pensions, and it's increasingly wrong as the private sector no longer has anything along these lines."
The 2022 reforms sought to limit payouts by basing pensions on average rather than final salary. However, pensions exceeding £50,000 have more than doubled since then, from 3,025 to 7,234, while those exceeding £100,000 rose from 71 to 263.
Last November, the TaxPayers' Alliance found that 22 senior civil servants had accumulated pension pots worth more than £1 million—enough to generate retirement income of over £70,000 a year.
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