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Originally Posted by Lurker
Also you say it's hardly news but this kind of stuff getting into the news and embarrassing them keeps politicians in line. This stuff needs to get into the news.
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This is the thing with Martin going - I'm concerned that it's the same thing you get in large companies. I'm convinced a lot of company heads and sub-management exist solely to tack the flack for shit companies. Lop the CEO and the company carries on raping children to make M&S sandwiches (or whatever). It's too early to say, but I do suspect that there'll be a lot of hand-wringing, an 'independant board' set-up to review matters (thus further extending the civil service) and a new speaker that blusters about 'big changes' until something else hits the news (local elections, anyone?) and then they'll carry on be ever-so-slightly less corrupt.
I think if anything good does come of this, it'll be that the complicity of newspapers in Whitehall democracy will be heavily damaged, to the detriment of the hacks.