David Cameron has even less grasp of how government works than I'd thought

David Mitchell venting his spleen in excellent fashion at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/13/david-mitchell-david-cameron-bureaucrats

Extract:

The whole premise of this government, of its NHS policy, of the "big society", of the "free schools" initiative is that the public sector sucks. The private sector, according to the Tories, beats it for efficiency every time, can be just as compassionate and, at the top, "rewards enterprise". Meanwhile the top of the public sector merely "pays people more than the prime minister".