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it's as good a background for management consultancy as any other
What, equivalent to say, a background in management of numerous small/medium businesses ? Really ?
I reckon Paxman was well within his rights to have a go at her. He was asking her some straight forward questions which she was reusing to answer. They were a matter of public interest and she witheld that information. She needs to be answerable to the public and if she tries to avoid that responsibility then she needs to be taken to task about it.
[i]What, equivalent to say, a background in management of numerous small/medium businesses ? Really ? [/i]
Ah, I see you're approaching this from a 'management consultancy is actually useful and is not just a monkey in a suit telling people to cut costs and increase profits' standpoint.
My experience of management consultants is they tell the board what they wanted to hear or if it;s not what they wanted to hear what they'd already been told by others but didn't believe because they're not highly paid management consultants.
I've had one too many meetings with consultants who say idiotic things like "all businesses are the same so I'm going to use an analogy that everyone understands, like fruit and veg selling". All well and good but the only person in the room who didn't understand what we did WAS the consultant so the analogy just confused the shit out of everyone.
Seem to be a lot of "consultants" these days, many of whom lack any experience and knowledge in any field whatsoever, or any applicable education. I feel sorry for real consultants who actually know their onions...
In defence of the best English Literature degrees (ahem), it does teach you [i]how[/i] to think (critically, analytically) and how to make an argument for or against something.
it does teach you how to think (critically, analytically) and how to make an argument for or against something
This is of course assuming that you have an idea about the subject you are talking about which in my experience most "consultants" don't and seeming fewer MPs do.
[i]In defence of the best English Literature degrees (ahem), it does teach you how to think (critically, analytically) and how to make an argument for or against something. [/i]
yep a you can go along way in this country talking crap, as long express yourself well.
She deflected the questions quite well
Is this what we want, then? - politicians that can deflect the questions? How about politicians that tell the truth?
She is a keen cyclist, well according to wiki anyway, so it must be true 😉
Having had a quick look at her 'career' in Wiki I find it astonishing that someone can go from reading English literature, to being a management consultant with a rather large firm, to being appointed a Treasury Minister, in such a staggeringly short space of time, with next to bugger all experience or training for the job in hand.
+1 from me too!
I've got quite a few friends who've studied an arts degree who've gone on the join the Civil Service in one of the central departments and promoted quickly, well paid, great expenses etc (periods abroad for a few months all expenses paid when their houses/flats at home are rented out paying the mortgage).
This would all be find if it seemed like they were earning their money but i don't think they are.
All of the complex work is carried out by other people, and then arts graduates completely fail to grasp the technicalities or even the GCSE level statistics behind many of the issues they are trying to manage.... which is why you end up with this sort of thing happening
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/bike-blog/2012/may/25/cycling-governed-dimwits
How the hell can they make any effective decisions about anything!?
She deflected the questions quite well
If she had done this well we woul dnot have noticed that she [s]failed to answeer the qwquestion that was asked of her [/s] deflected
TBH, having seen the footage and read the context (the u-turn on fuel duty), her performance on NN and ill-preparedness speaks volumes about the Tories and Cameron and Osborne in particular.
They haven't got a strategy and when the sh!t hits the fan, they'll duck the fallout and send in the junior ranks to take the flak.
Losers