No, it’s not just the personalities:
The Prime Minister’s plan to make postcode information freely available, when it currently makes more than £20 million a year for Royal Mail, is said to have left the Business Secretary feeling increasingly sidelined.
No, it’s not just Gordo and Mandy having a spat. It’s what they’re having a spat about.
£20 million is 0.0028% of the current budget. It’s less than a rounding error.
What in buggery are the two most powerful politicians in the country doing even considering such a pittance, let alone having a fight about it? This is the sort of thing that should be dealt with at middle management level within the Post Office, not fought over in the Cabinet*.
No wonder politics doesn’t work when huge amounts of time and energy are spent on such trivialities.
*Note that it makes all such decisions within anything remotely connected to Government inefficient: for middle management cannot credibly commit, they must refer it upwards.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Kit // Dec 24, 2009 at 8:48 am
As the old saying goes:
“Count the millions and the trillions look after themselves.”
2 The Remittance Man // Dec 24, 2009 at 9:17 am
More a case of “Penny wise, pound foolish” methinks.
3 ukliberty // Dec 25, 2009 at 9:58 am
Parkinson’s Law of Triviality.
4 Evelyn // Dec 25, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Actually, it’s a good sign…
Imagine what those moonbats could do if they were as effective as you wish they were.
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