The redundant rear-admiral
Apr 2, 2012
Bishop Hill in Climate: WG2, Climate: WG3

The UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has a guest post from Rear Admiral Neil Morisetti, who is "the UK Government’s Climate and Energy Security Envoy". 

Britain famously has more admirals than warships and one often wonders what all these highly paid people actually do all day, so it is good to have this clarification that the Ministry of Defence is setting up "jobs for the boys" schemes to keep redundant sailors up to their necks in our tax money.

Hague's decision to allow Morisetti a guest post on his facebook page rather seems to endorse the corruption too.

Morisetti's article is largely content-free, but he manages to demonstrate an almost complete ignorance of how business works, suggesting that supply chain disruption for businesses needs to be addressed by government policy.

That a redundant sailor doesn't understand that this is the kind of thing purchasing managers worry about on a day-to-day basis is understandable. That he should be paid a huge salary to advertise his ignorance is not.

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