Here's how it works.
The management of Public Money and Public Institutions is in the hands of people who believe in Policy and not Management. How many times have you marvelled at the stupidity of deeply flawed policies pushed by Politicians. How many times, with a few minutes deliberation, have you thought of so many pitfalls to the scheme at hand that you cannot imagine why they are even being considered. - JOIN THE CLUB!
How many times have you wondered why nobody is ever brought 'To Book' when scandals rock the NHS or the Civil Service or the Police or Local Authorities, or the Post Office or indeed any Public Body ?
Well quite simply the wrongdoers have been following Policy.
Paying off the offenders is the best way forward. It has been tried and tested and it works. Newspapers will huff and puff until a better story comes along. The electorate, well why consider the powerless and irrelevant.
It is comforting to live in a country where 'They know best'.