Thursday, January 03, 2008

Banging the gong for child benefit

I once remarked to my boss, after 2 slightly surprising promotions to senior positions, that presiding over a disaster seemed to be no bar to promotion

He replied that he supposed it must mean that at least they had been able to have Kept their head put on their annual appraisals

Which I suppose goes someway towards explaining why Richard Summersgill, director of Child Benefit & Tax Credit Offices, HM Revenue & Customs, has received a CBE in the New Year Honours list