[jaysay]

One of the things that's always forgotten when talking about all political parties, is who is behind the scenes, if anybody thinks that all decisions are taken by politicians then your living on cloud cuckoo land, has as been mentioned before, politicians don't always know what is going on in their name, and that's the case at every level of politics, even HBC. When politicians propose their spending, its civil servants who say whether it will fly or not and how much money is needed and where it comes from or its obtained, i.e. taxation borrowing, selling assets etc. some manage this better than others