And I must tell you, I've been impressed by the competence, the management skills that so many of you have demonstrated in incredibly difficult financial times and difficult circumstances.

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Mr Zeman might bring probity to economic management, but would he bring competence?

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In my experience, most managers in the health service have no credentials and have passed no tests of competence, although medicine and health-service management are very complex affairs.

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For one, it allowed widespread public frustration with the Republicans' management of the battle for Iraq to obscure legitimate questions about the Democrats' competence on national security matters.

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