Make it 1000%!
OPINION: The appendage swinging contest between the US and China continues, with China hitting back with a new rate of 125% on the US, up from the 84% announced earlier.
He says departments lack clarity about their core business, hold endless meaningless meetings, are strangled by too many layers of management, too much duplication and no focus on outcomes.
Sir Brian has hit the nail on the head and the Hound wonders why past public service chiefs haven't come to this same conclusion decades ago.
This old mutt has been around a few government departments over the years and reckons it's a miracle anything useful gets done in some departments.
It was said that the late Mike Moore had the answer: a rubber stamp with one word on it - 'bullshit' a stamp he applied to the worst of the official reports he received.
