I guess it depends what you mean by corruption, though! It's true, you don't get the same corruption here as on the continent, but the civil service is also very conservative (not in a partisan sense, but in the sense that it's very difficult to reform and moves very slowly - conservative sort of how the military is, but without the excuse that they're risking their lives). This negatively affects anyone trying to drastically reform any area of public life - I remember Adonis talking about how difficult getting the Academy implementation through the civil service was. In fact, they never really succeeded to a large extent. Sir Humphries is, from what I hear, only a mild exaggeration. That such road blocks are put in front of our elected officials is not corruption per se, but its certainly a corruption of the process.
