[steveegg]

Mr Powell, therefore, is the man to drop them a rope to help them up the steep learning curve that he has himself climbed.

What is more likely to happen to that rope; it being used to pull the UN up the steep learning curve and out of obselescence, or the UN wrapping it around its neck and leaping to the bottom of that learning curve?

[NovemberCharlie]

What is more likely to happen to that rope; it being used to pull the UN up the steep learning curve and out of obselescence, or the UN wrapping it around its neck and leaping to the bottom of that learning curve?

At this point, I would welcome either option.