Blaming bureaucracy is the cliche of demagogues around here, but there is an element of truth to such rhetoric. Far as I can tell among civil servants there's no real chain of command, an awful lot of committee forming, and a general tendency to collectively stick their heads in the sand and pretend it's all going to be fine. At the moment we can survive this kind of attitude, but as soon as anything starts going wrong (either economically or in the case of a physical disaster) politicians will be more busy blaming each other than doing anything constructive; not really sure how the public would react, but the general apathy and disrespect towards the current generation of politicians doesn't look too promising.