The Foreign Office

One final post for the day.
Apparently a bunch of management consultants has produced a report claiming the following things about our beloved Foreign Office :

1. The Foreign Office is "slow to act"

2. There is a lack of delegation

3. There is not enough accountability for completing tasks and meeting deadlines, with junior staff avoiding blame for poor work by relying on their bosses to check documents

4. Middle managers feel obliged to "monitor, review and repeat work in order to 'justify their existence'

All well and good : but such incompetence pales in comparison to the level of ineptitude needed to spend months on a report confirming the bleeding obvious.

So the civil service is cumbersome, unaccountable, inefficient and bureaucratic. Bears have been known on occasion to shit in the woods.