' Yes minister' from the diaries of a cabinet minister gave me new revelations into a politician's and civil servants administrative life. The way these ' bloks ' deal with solutions to problems is reallly smooth. Probably as smooth as a Toad's stomach. . .
There was this one case where this civil servant ' Sir Humphrey ' wanted to say to the MP that it's not his job to run the department. Instead he puts it this way -
" Minister, the traditional allocation of executive responsibilities has always been so
determined as to liberate the ministerial incumbent from the administrative minutie
by devolving the managerial functions to those who experience and qualifications
have better formed them for the performance of such humble offices, thereby releasing
their political overlords for the more onerous duties and profound deliberations that
are the inevitable concomitant of their exalted position "
Phew !! Try beating that. I always thought that women had a way to complicate things. Well, I was wrong . . .
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