Conclusive proof that nothing works in Britain

It relates to tennis, but this is as perfect a microcosm of events in my lifetime as I've ever read:

There was a time when British tennis was run by blazered Bufton Tuftons and cried out for modernisation and efficient practice; now the desire of the LTA to 'organise into the optimum way of serving our key stakeholders to efficiently and effectively deliver real benefits to British tennis in 2008 and beyond' (the words of Stuart Smith, its departing President, not mine) has a distinctly hollow look.