Thursday, February 28, 2008

How Government Works 101

1: Identify bleeding obvious problem in society but act as if you're the one that discovered it.
2: Announce you're going to hold a 'widespread review' with a plan to create a plan to tackle said problem.
3: Hold review over long period of time and refuse to comment further on policy apart from only ever referring to the fact you are having a review.
4: Publish five or ten year plan explaining how you're going to solve the problem because you've written that you will.
5: Spend next few years always referring to the master plan and that its implementation is coming along very nicely thank you.
6: As the end of the plan's lifetime nears, return to step 1 re-identifying the problem anew.

1 comments:

kinglear said...
28-Feb-2008 09:14:00  

Civil Derf has a thing about meetings that drain and destroy your soul. Of course, nothing ever gets done, but actually I think the electorate are no longer prepared to tolerate the " we're doing something" line, and are increasingly demanding what is ACTUALLY being DONE?