‘What we have to facilitate is a bottom-up approach.’
In Competition No. 2464 you were invited to provide a specimen of ministerial waffle.
‘What we have to facilitate is a bottom-up approach.’ When I heard those words come out of the mouth of Ruth Kelly (could she really have been Secretary of State for Education?), I knew we had a competition.

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