No doubt written by the same person who lashed together the Brexit white paper
Oh, irony of ironies: Gov.UK's transparency report reveals... nothing
The British government has published a transparency report into the use of disruptive and investigatory powers by State actors, which ironically reveals absolutely nothing about the use of said powers. Introducing the 110-page report [PDF], the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, wrote that the government "is committed to increasing …
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Friday 24th February 2017 15:49 GMT Loyal Commenter
Not that there were ever experts in government, but there used to be a time when government would listen to experts outside of government - people who actually know what they are talking about, rather than what we have now, which seems to be politicians who don't know what they are doing but rather than admit it, and defer to experts, prefer to vilify 'so called experts', and cover up their own incompetence.
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Friday 24th February 2017 23:54 GMT wikkity
RE: would listen to experts outside of government
Depends on what the subject matter was. They've never listened to experts about some subjects, e.g. drugs.
Lately it's becoming across the board, but I think this is due to politicians trying too hard to appear vote-able, there is much more of a tendency nowadays for politicians to ignore what they actually believe in and go what they think Joe public thinks, and Joe Public does not believe expert opinions are based on fact and understanding.
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Saturday 25th February 2017 08:34 GMT Anonymous Coward
there used to be a time when government would listen to experts outside of government -
I'm an old buzzard, and I can't recall that time. Transport policy, fiscal policy, energy policy, industrial policy, defence policy, foreign policy, migration policy, education policy, housing policy, health policy.....they've all been shit as long as I can remember.
Many of the persistently poor choices of the past are only now coming home to roost (eg with the NHS or borrowing), and the idea that politicians in the past were competent and listened to expertise is nonsense. Think back to the bunglers of the past Ted Heath, Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan, and before? Since then, I doubt from your previous posts that you've any time for Maggie. Blair and Brown launched the never ending wars in the Middle East on lies, created our idiot energy policy, bankrupted the state by reckless borrowing and letting the banks run out of control (not to mention screwing up higher education). Cameron is universally recognised as a toffee nosed arse wipe, May is an illiberal Victorian control freak.
Who's left? John Major?
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