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Originally posted by omg@May 28 2005, 01:26 PM
the civil service is the work of the devil to poisen us!
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I suppose Humphrey's answer to that would be: "Well Minister, if you ask me for a straight answer, then I shall say that, as far as we can see, looking at it by and large, taking one thing with another in terms of the average of departments, then in the final analysis it is probably true to say, that at the end of the day, in general terms, you would probably find that, not to put too fine a point on it, there probably wasn't very much in it one way or the other. As far as one can see, at this stage."