Captain Haddock wrote:Most of the rubble in Germany had been cleared by the population, both men and women, working with buckets and wheelbarrows, within five years, as they wished to get rid of all evidence of the recent embarrassing unpleasantness.
We left most of ours growing budlia for decades waiting for the all providing 'gummint' to do something rather than getting off our collective arses and doing anything about it.
Fact.
Are you referring to Germany or Dover Bob?
Either way its a perfect example of how as you say "gummint" is ineffective and how the collective will of people gets things done.
If Germany had the internet circa 1945-50 keyboard warriors could have posted helpful things such as:
"Look at those idiots with barrows clearing up rubble"