From the BBC:
The government spent £780m reorganising its departments and agencies in the four years after the 2005 election, Whitehall's spending watchdog says. The National Audit Office says more than 90 such moves happened, some of which may have been unnecessary...
Conservative MP Edward Leigh, the chairman of the Commons public accounts committee, which oversees the work of the NAO, said: "Designers of logos and makers of nameplates have had much reason to be grateful for central government's passion for constantly reorganising and renaming its departments. No one else seems to be very keen - especially the hard-pressed civil servants who have to cope with the fall-out while still trying to do their day jobs. Whether this frenzy of reorganisation and renaming gives value for money is entirely mysterious."
He only let himself down with 'hard pressed civil servant', which is a contradiction in terms.
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The civil servants will become very hard pressed when I can get my hands around their throats.
Designers of logos and makers of nameplates have had much reason to be grateful for central government's passion for constantly reorganising and renaming its departments.
Honourable mention should go to the company who redesigned the logo for The Office of Government Commerce.
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He only let himself down with 'hard pressed civil servant', which is a contradiction in terms.
From my own time as one, "hard-pressed" is not the adjective I would have used.
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