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by michaelt 2387 days ago
Here in the UK we usually go for the traditional things: Consultants provide free assistants to ministers. Assistants advise that X is a superb idea. Government pays consultants for help implementing X, which they happen to be experts in. Then everyone impacted by X also hires the consultants to figure out what's going on. Later the minister leaves government and is hired for a £x00,000 salary for one day a week of 'advice'.