Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the
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The NHS had a boat race against a Japanese crew and after Japan won by a mile, a working party found that the winners had 8 people rowing and one steering, whilst the NHS had had 8 steering and one rowing. So the NHS spent £5million on consultants and formed a reformed crew of four assistant steering managers, three deputy managers, and a director of steering services. The one rower was given an incentive to row harder. They held another race and lost by two miles. So the NHS layed off the rower for poor performance, sold the boat and gave the Director of steering services a bonus for making difficult decisions"
I remember a joke going around on face book, there was a hole with a man working digging it and a load of people stood all around the hole looking down.
they all had a label, things like Engineering manager, Project manager, finance manager, health and saftey rep, Business co ordinator,
the person in the hole working was "bloke from Poland"