You can fire silver bullets into Sir Humphrey’s brain, ram a totem pole through his heart, and rivet the bugger into a lead-lined casket; but he’ll be wriggling out again some time before daybreak.

With the Coalition cull of 100,000 jobs about to get the starter’s gun, the Mandarins have recognised their complete lack of Parliamentary support on the issue and thus gone the grubby route…..flattering the power of Speaker John Bercow.

Civil service unions have written to the Bung from Bucks, insisting that the procedure – in which the legislation is classified as a “money bill” that cannot be amended in the House of Lords – should not be approved for Francis Maude’s job-cut bill.

Said headcase Hugh Lanning of the PCS civil service union, “These proposals are a disgraceful attempt by the government to replace a fair, negotiated right to decent compensation with a bargain basement pay-off.”

Disgraceful? Fair? What’s disgraceful is the fraudulent award of whopping great pensions. What would be more fair is if redundancy were to be waived in favour of a criminal trial.

Maude wants the Bill cleared by September 16th so the redundancy process can begin as soon as possible. The Sir Humphreys want it delayed in the Lords (there’s a big Labour majority there) until such time as a Government more amenable to their auto-award system can be elected – following any constitutional crisis which might occur.

Two things: One, get this story out there and high-profile so that Bercow in particular is put under enormous pressure to declare this proposal to be what it is – a Money Bill. You don’t have to credit the Slog – just get it out there.

Two, if you want to, feel free to start using the campaign’s brand name (see top) to raise awareness of the crime that’s been committed here.

Related Article: How £1 in 8 of the National Debt is down to 600,000 Mandarin pensions.