Originally Posted by
Jimlad1
As for MOD being Govt - total b*ll****. The MOD is everyone in the building and beyond - strange how you're all so quick to blame the CS for everything that goes wrong, yet as soon as the usual myths about who actually works in MB are quashed, people go quiet...
Whilst this may be true it is not the public perception nor even the semi-professional assessment here on pprune.
The perception reality is that armed forces = good - MOD (Centre) = bad
By extension armed forces equates to uniforms and therefore Centre equates to civil servants.
This means that
anyone in the Centre, not in a uniform, is a civil servant.
As for civil servants being Government, this of course is wrong as the whole civil service system serves the Government in power and is not, ipso facto, the Government.