Re: Government Noses

[Ian G Batten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

On Sun, 07 Sep 2003, David Hansen wrote:
> they can decide if this was necessary and proportional. I don't trust 
> officials to decide this, especially with a smug regulator who is never 
> even going to say boo to miscreant officials let alone sort out 

There is no regulator and no regulation.  There's a name and an address,
but it appears totally hollow.  Presumably all you need is a judge and a
rubber stamp which says ``approved in full''.  As we've seen from the
Hutton enquiry, though, both government and civil servants are as honest
as the day is long, so there's no real need for oversight.  Which is
just as well, because the government has appointed a poodle to do it.
Nothing that Simon says or does can change the fact that any claims of
`regulation' and `oversight' in his work are total nonsense, because the
regulator is simply a toothless servant of the people who he is
supposedly regulating.  Perhaps we could ask the Public Accounts
Committee to see if they can justify paying someone to do nothing except
write pathetic letters to Simon Davies?

ian