Department for Tax and Spend

Yes Please, Minister

Sir Humphrey.jpgIain Dale is outraged at the news that Paul Gray (brief backstory: in charge of HMRC when Datagate hit the headlines the other week, promptly resigned. With us? Good) is to be given a cushy job in the Cabinet Office which pays two hundred thousand beans a year.

For ourselves, we're more "meh" at the news. Is it really a surprise? For, did not the Good Book say:

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is to fire a civil servant.

Amen.

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