Comments on: Straight out of Yes, Minister https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/straight-out-of-yes-minister/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Thu, 13 Feb 2014 00:12:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: sunshine https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/straight-out-of-yes-minister/#comment-1561633 Thu, 13 Feb 2014 00:12:25 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44150#comment-1561633 Who are “the presidents of the regions”?

]]> By: Claude Sciberras https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/straight-out-of-yes-minister/#comment-1559693 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 00:20:37 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44150#comment-1559693 I think this qualifies as creating more red tape.

]]> By: ciccio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/straight-out-of-yes-minister/#comment-1559668 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 00:03:32 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44150#comment-1559668 In reply to H.P. Baxxter.

Sounds like a war on red tape.

]]> By: ciccio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/straight-out-of-yes-minister/#comment-1559664 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 00:02:31 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44150#comment-1559664 In reply to Mikiel.

“We are going to finish up with half the working population working somehow for the government. And the rest paying for them.”

Yepp. That’s half the population working for the government, and the other half working for them.

]]> By: Neil https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/straight-out-of-yes-minister/#comment-1559619 Tue, 11 Feb 2014 23:23:59 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44150#comment-1559619 It’s good ‘ere, innit? A laugh a minute.

]]> By: Nutter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/straight-out-of-yes-minister/#comment-1559599 Tue, 11 Feb 2014 23:14:51 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44150#comment-1559599 In reply to Harry Purdie.

Just cherries on the icing.

]]> By: Kevin https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/straight-out-of-yes-minister/#comment-1559517 Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:15:12 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44150#comment-1559517 In reply to Jozef.

Ambitious

]]> By: ciccio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/straight-out-of-yes-minister/#comment-1559469 Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:47:07 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44150#comment-1559469 In reply to Alexander Ball.

Maybe he has this red tape in mind.

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]]> By: C Falzon https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/straight-out-of-yes-minister/#comment-1559461 Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:37:46 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44150#comment-1559461 I distinctly remember that episode. The fundamental difference here is that the Prime Minister gets to choose his own Sir Humphrey.

]]> By: observer https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/straight-out-of-yes-minister/#comment-1559439 Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:24:03 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44150#comment-1559439 Well, at least the whole crowd involved in the ‘simplification’ process (numbering fifty, if not more, by my estimates) will be meeting at least ONCE every quarter.

That should leave them all ample time to continue carrying out their as yet ‘un-simplified’ functions in the respective offices they hold.

Again, a little proof-reading would not have been amiss in this case, too.

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