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Originally Posted by Seeker
Machiavellian?
Zahari's taxes under investigation by HMRC.
BoZo knew this before appointing him Chancellor
HMRC comes under the jurisdiction of the Treasury.
I'm sure no pressure will be applied.
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Whilst Machiavelli is usually characterised as an evil manipulator, there's another school of thought that he was just a highly competent manager and influencer, well able to deal with the many competing interests that needed co-ordinating and unblocking to just get stuff done (albeit probably his way rather than anyone else's, I grant you).
Right now, I think I'd happily tolerate some more of that delivery skill in our national administration. The fighting behaviours and stunted progress we seem to mainly see nowadays in Government and Parliament wouldn't be out of place in most early-school playgrounds.