Public Services, 150 Languages, Lecturing to the US??

Reportedly the UK CIO, John Suffolk, has been lecturing our friends in the US on ‘learnings’ from public sector service development - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/24/john_suffolk/. Reports can be misleading but on the basis of the available evidence, the only viable response is to invoke another mathematician:
 

I've said that political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Prize.
Tom Lehrer


Often misquoted as the cause of his retirement
http://www.avclub.com/articles/tom-lehrer,13660/