Sentence:  Why not just leave things as they are and say, "We are going to run this government organisation efficiently; we are going to make sure that the <WSD>government stroke</WSD> has disappeared, that the managers are on the ball and that the customers get good service". 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The deliberately slow pace of work supposed to be typical of government workers.<ref>Australian Broadcasting Commission Radio National "Lingua Franca" program, 24 August 2002 [https://web.archive.org/web/20040516201813/http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/ling/stories/s656313.htm].</ref>