On Freezing Out Civil Servants

If a hypothetical Cabinet Minister, one who might both look and sound like he was the sort of wee boy who always stayed in the classroom at playtime in order to read 'The Lord Of The Rings', or to play 'Dungeons and Dragons' along with the rest of the nerds in Muck o' Pitbonkle, were to try to remove Labour appointed senior civil servants from his department, would that not amount to an attack on the integrity of the civil service?

Or could it be a much more profound, ideologically motivated attack not upon the Civil Service but on the state itself - to make the state so unattractive an employer to work for that nobody will want to work for it, thus causing the size of the state to reduce; or more properly, for the state to atrophy?

All very neoconservative, it seems to me; all very entryist. But then again it's entirely hypothetical.