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Thought for the day

Saturday 10th January, 2009

As competitions go, I suspect that THIS could get out of control if it was run in the UK right now.  In fact, I think the Conservative Party should definitely give it a go!

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7 Comments

1. JuliaM January 10th, 2009 at 10:38 am

   “Cecilia Velazquez received a check for 300,000 pesos (22,000 dollars) from President Felipe Calderon after winning the competition to identify the worst red tape in the notoriously bureaucratic country.”

   Good grief! Are you in competetion with Gordon to see who could bankrupt the country fastest..?

2. LFAT January 10th, 2009 at 11:07 am

   It is refreshing to see a President set up this kind of competition, knowing that there are such serious problem.

   I wonder if he’s going to do anything about the red tape, bearing in mind how many entries this competition must have had….

3. patently January 10th, 2009 at 1:39 pm

   We’d need a veritable army of civil servants to deal with the applications, though…

4. JuliaM January 10th, 2009 at 1:49 pm

   Oooh, good point!

5. LFAT January 10th, 2009 at 4:55 pm

   Oh, the beautiful job irony – a massive job creation scheme for civil servants made from a competition into pointless job creation schemes for civil servants.

   Does it make me a bad person for wanting Labour to give this a go, just to see the public’s reaction?

6. CherryPie January 10th, 2009 at 6:50 pm

   I think there would be so many responses it would take years to go through them all to find a winner!

7. Al January 11th, 2009 at 1:44 am

   But then we’d have to ask the EU very nicely if they would mind us changing their rules.