Because our executive and legislature are one. It's to give effect to a modified separation of powers.
My impression from you is that an impartial civil service should be a "check" on executive power. That's what I don't get.
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Impartiality obliges a civil servant to tell the minister what is true, not what they want to be told. That's very important.
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I would still class that as an "efficiency" rather than a "democracy" consideration. But I think we've got to the end.
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Thanks very much for persevering, it's been educational.
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That was certainly not the motivation when the idea of an impartial professional civil service first arose.
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I'm talking about impartiality, not professionalism.
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