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A comment on Assange Hearing Day 8. Parent comment

Re:Assange Hearing Day 8 by BusTrainBus on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:25AM (#24430844)
“Civil servants in the UK are renowned for being inherently lazy, incompetent and devious.”

Depressing to see such low-quality nonsense on HackerNews.

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Re:Assange Hearing Day 8 by DyslexicAtheist on Thursday September 10, 2020 @08:57AM (#24431890)
there are several brilliant documentaries[⁰][¹] about the inner political circles in Britain which make exactly the point GP is alluding to:

[⁰] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thick_of_It

[¹] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister

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Re:Assange Hearing Day 8 by mothsonasloth on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:31AM (#24430882)
Likewise with your comment mate

https://www.clivebates.com/documents/lazycivilservant.pdf

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Re:Assange Hearing Day 8 by CraigJPerry on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:55AM (#24431020)
I’m not sure that an amusing leaflet, ostensibly about civil servants but equally humorous to anyone in a large private enterprise, refutes the parent’s point.
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