Double-entry blunder

HAVING watched the PAC on television questioning Mr Cardiff, and his analogy of the helmsman on the stormy seas, was he the pilot on the Marie Celeste, frankly, to lose €3.6bn on double entry bookkeeping and be informed on four separate occasions of this error?

Listening to his bland statement — that there would be no number crunchers left if they had to fire everybody that made mistakes — the only ones left, Mr Cardiff, would be those suitable for purpose, and I include you in that.

Is this why this country pays a shedload of money and a pension that Croesus would envy to these mandarins? And his reward for this catastrophic blunder — a bigger pay packet and pension on his transfer to Europe.