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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth
I love the attitude of 'If we can get some money get it. Now, what can we blow it on?'.
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The attitude within the civil service machinery generally seems to be to pitch for as much money as possible and then think what to spend it on. Conversely, projects are awarded arbitrary sums of money without any costings or consumer research or even basic performance standards of success or failure.
Part of the problem lies in the system of taking money away from departments if they don't spend their entire budget allocation for that year so meaningless projects at the end of the year are approved just to make sure that next year's funding remains the same.
It would be more sensible just to agree that anything which was absolutely essential for any department to fulfil its function would not be refused.