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Originally Posted by ziadel
wtf is a whitehall mandarin???
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A useless bureaucrat or advisor (The derived expression mandarin has a chinese root) within Whitehall (One of the London political power centres) with no real purpose other than to propose new shiny, popular PC initiatives which are either unimplementable, unworkable, break or don't do anything new, often at a very high cost. Associated with New (sic) Labour.
This is an almost perfect example of the kind of proposal they can come up with.