The tremors put Advisory and Finance in particular on shaky ground. A and F's silence on the 'jobs for the boys' affair has been profound. A and F told Deputy Burbridge to resign from his presidency but he defied them. Worse, while the crisis was approaching boiling point, we see that A and F, having demanded the GT president's resignation, bizarrely fields its president to say in public that a united board is in GT's best interests after all. Suddenly, probity, accountability and integrity are negotiable in the interests of expediency.
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