The Brits are still good at something...

[Mich the Tester]

Decision making. Cameron and Clegg took 4 days to form a pretty solid looking coalition agreement. Most European countries take 40 days or more for this, and even then some fail altogether.

Keep this up and wipe out the government bureaucracy and Britain’s economy will fly past the stodgy bureaucrats over here on le continent.

[TimberWolf]

I wouldn't be surprised if Hague was instrumental in much of it. I was glad to see him involved in the negotiations and thought him the best man for the job, and about him being made Foreign Secretary (a likely tricky area to come).

[Mich the Tester]

I wouldn't be surprised if Hague was instrumental in much of it. I was glad to see him involved in the negotiations and thought him the best man for the job, and about him being made Foreign Secretary (a likely tricky area to come).

Yep. Hague's a Good chappy. Serious though, if I look around businesses here in NL there are lots of Brits and Irish; generally they’re capable of taking decisions and saying ‘OK let’s get on with it and sort out the paperwork later’, whereas the Dutch follow a procedural approach that takes months to achieve nothing more than producing some pieces of paper.