Sharma provides details
Dr Sharma has done a lengthy post on Facebook providing details of what he claims was poor performance by staffers which he repeatedly complained about. It is too long to summarise here, but I will note a few things.
- The reference to raising 66 specific issues regarding a staffer seems over the top at best or obsessive at worse.
- It does seem rather bad luck (at best) to have had three staffers who were all so bad at their jobs.
- One aspect worth exploring is the allegations that the Parliamentary Service Relationship Manager was not (as you would expect) a neutral public servant, but a Labour Party activist who had tried to stop Dr Sharma from being selected. This should be easily verifiable. When I worked at Parliament, the core PS staff were absolutely politically neutral.
- Dr Sharma has only one real request – an independent inquiry into the employment issues. This could well find he was at fault and a bad boss, or it could find that he had legitimate issues about the staff and he was totally let down by PS and Labour. Why not give him the inquiry he wants, as it would provide closure to the issue?