Raffles
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Post by Raffles on Feb 10, 2014 18:18:29 GMT
This was a quote from a resident in the Thames Valley today regarding flood work done overnight... laying a sandbag barrier but leaving a gap at the end which let the water in.
It's a brilliant phrase which I've never heard before, and IMO applies to so many other departments and having watched PMQs this afternoon, if it wasn't so serious it would have been comical.
Any of you suffering from all of this, my thoughts are with you.
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Post by chris86 on Feb 10, 2014 18:33:18 GMT
As far as I know, the phrase was first used to describe the conduct of the First World War - with the infantry as the lions and the generals as the donkeys.
Anyway, whoever laid the sandbags was probably but a mere donkey who didn't know what he was doing, employed by other donkeys with substandard recruitment policies and poorly thought out plans. Call me a cynic, but 'donkeys led by donkeys' strikes me as a more suitable phrase for what tends to happen when it comes to any kind of bureaucratic planning.
My thoughts also go out to those affected by the flooding, and I hope that no more costly mistakes are made in dealing with it.
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