British Consulate, Canberra, ACT

British Consulate, Canberra, ACT
Originally uploaded by luton man.

This fine image of the British Consulate in Oz was taken by one of my esteemed colleagues at the Univ of Beds.

I am posting this image here by way of protest. As the British Government, in its finite wisdom, thought it would be a great wheeze to require my colleague to fly all the way from the UK to Australia and back simply to get a bureaucratic seal put on his documents - thus permitting him to then return to the job he has been doing ably for the last couple of years. Nice One!

Where to start - Well there's the Global Climate Change issue, the Waste of Academic Funds issue, there is the possible Thrombosis issue ( from flying for so long)...there's the what's wrong with our system that it requires such a patently idiotic trip! issue.

Surely this could have been done in the UK!