Comments on: Five Year Plan http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2005/03/07/1506 Every day the Prime Minister's Spokesman meets a small coterie of political journalists known as 'the lobby' for a topical chat, or 'briefing'. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:38:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: PapaLazzzaru http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2005/03/07/1506#comment-2823 PapaLazzzaru Tue, 08 Mar 2005 03:10:22 +0000 http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2005/03/07/1506#comment-2823 Sounds like something out of Monty Python, dunnit?! "Five is the number, and the number is Five. Count ye not to Three or Four unless thou then proceedeth to Five..." Sounds like something out of Monty Python, dunnit?! "Five is the number, and the number is Five. Count ye not to Three or Four unless thou then proceedeth to Five…"

]]> By: PapaLazzzaru http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2005/03/07/1506#comment-2822 PapaLazzzaru Tue, 08 Mar 2005 03:09:07 +0000 http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2005/03/07/1506#comment-2822 "Asked to clarify what a Five Year Plan was, and were they backed by documents, the PMOS said that if the journalist examined various departments' Five Year Plans, he would see the depth of the plan." So no actual explanation at all, just a rather oblique reference to the depth of the plans, as though that's enough for any idiot to understand how that depth of planning makes the plan a Five Year Plan. What a load of old tosh! "Asked to clarify what a Five Year Plan was, and were they backed by documents, the PMOS said that if the journalist examined various departments’ Five Year Plans, he would see the depth of the plan."

So no actual explanation at all, just a rather oblique reference to the depth of the plans, as though that’s enough for any idiot to understand how that depth of planning makes the plan a Five Year Plan. What a load of old tosh!

]]> By: Roger Huffadine http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2005/03/07/1506#comment-2818 Roger Huffadine Mon, 07 Mar 2005 23:15:19 +0000 http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2005/03/07/1506#comment-2818 In a fast changing World forward planning is "what's for lunch?" - my quote as a software developer. A 5 year plan is complete b*ll*cks when governments only sit for 4 years. Why are they wasting my taxes? In a fast changing World forward planning is "what’s for lunch?"
- my quote as a software developer.

A 5 year plan is complete b*ll*cks when governments only sit for 4 years.

Why are they wasting my taxes?

]]> By: Chris Lightfoot http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2005/03/07/1506#comment-2816 Chris Lightfoot Mon, 07 Mar 2005 23:01:06 +0000 http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2005/03/07/1506#comment-2816 Ooh! A Five Year Plan! How original! http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSfive.htm Ooh! A Five Year Plan! How original!
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSfive.htm

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