Learned some scary things today from The Candidate himself and from elsewhere which only confirmed my worst fears about the process. Know any good buses I can thrown myself under?

We'll just have to see how it turns out but I think my faith in the 'system' has taken a blow from which it may never recover. I can't help feeling I would have got as good a result (almost certainly better) by rolling dice. It was best summed up by a former colleague who said "it does sometimes seem that the meticulously fair tick-box approach to performance on the day can be unfair in a wider sense."