No sign we have learnt from past mistakes

For one of the best-educated countries in the world, it is more than surprising that we allow ourselves to be taken for a ride on a regular basis.

The comptroller and auditor general annually reels out significant financial and operational “errors” made in public sector and government agencies in previous years, yet, year-on-year the same “errors” and general waste of money occur.

It is as if the fact that the information was made public somehow bestowed forgiveness for the previous year’s omissions, and we can now restart at zero and continue to make the same mistakes. And, as we all know, only an idiot never learns from his mistakes.