Comment by crinkly

Having sat in a policy meeting many years ago, as the resident "numbers guy", where they come up with that short of shit, this is clearly the usual design by committee advisory note. Some postgrad intern, getting mugged off by working there for nothing said it, someone more senior needed some padding and it sounded about right and no one in the room even understands everything that has been said. This will all be done behind closed doors with an expensive sandwich provision with at least 2-3 £1000 a day contractors in there.

I'll quote another colleague there "If you survive public sector for 6 months you'll be unfit even for Soylent Green". I didn't last 3.