and yet change is a good thing, in general.
None of us can really tell the final effect of any decisions that we take, only deal with the outcomes. We try something, we screw up, we try something else. This is true of business/public service/politics as it is of anything else. This is how the world progresses, by bumps and jerks (thankyou, no puns required on the jerks reference!) When you get to be as "old and cynical" as Geoff and I obviously are (or am I stepping on your toes here Geoff?) then we (make that I) tend towards a concervative view, yet, it is only by trying that we can progress.
To bring this back to where it started (and to contradict myself in some ways) perhaps the way forward (greater efficiency, cost saving, etc, etc) is indeed to look at more intigration of support services.
Frankly, I don't know, none of us do.
and by the way Geoff, not being ex-forces, what is REME?
.... and I should make a general apology for the standard of my spelling (this applies from now on to all posts), never was my strong point ! Does this post/forum system have a spell check?
