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Making the same anouncement twice

As is well known, ministers in this government would make drums out of the skins of their own mothers the louder to sing their own praises, and announce the same 'announcement' every six months in the hope that the gullible and the complicit will report it as new money.

So much for the history lesson. Now the same press release is attributed to two different departments on the same day:

So DEFRA has this to say - "A raft of new Government measures to help vulnerable consumers and especially the elderly make their homes warmer and more energy efficient are announced today". It goes on to quote the Wickser, Woolas and O'Brien.

And the DTI BERR has this to say: "A raft of new Government measures to help vulnerable consumers and especially the elderly make their homes warmer and more energy efficient are announced today". Guess who it quotes.....

Both were released into the wild at one past midnight according to the DEFRA and BERR websites. However, the ever useful thegovernmentsays.com tells a somewhat different story, detecting BERR's release at 3.12 and Defra's at 4.44.

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Blogger Old BE said... 8:48 am

That is what is known as "joined-up government". Remember that? I also want to know what happened to the "stakeholder economy".  



Blogger Croydonian said... 8:54 am

There is always the possibility of italic or bold government, not that I am holding my breath. I suspect that we have now is comic sans......  



Blogger Old BE said... 9:05 am

Perhaps it is more of a "multi-agency strategy"?  



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