Can Gordon Really Be So Remote from Reality?

Gordon Brown's noticed, no doubt by reading the Daily Mail, that some people are a bit uneasy about the fact that everything is being banned by gangs of jobsworth gits. It adds insult to injury that said gits are being funded from our taxes.

If he tried really really hard, he couldn't come up with a worse solution than setting up yet another quango full of useless jobsworths. It is such a shame - an real opportunity missed, like much of Labour's tenure, especially in recent years. Step forward, the Risk and Regulation Advisory Council ( I am not making this up).

As for the organisation itself, it already has a website preaching mangement-speak utter bollocks like "On taking office as Prime Minister, Gordon Brown committed to taking the Better Regulation agenda to a new level by focusing upstream at where policy-making engages with risk"

This is a fucking talking shop. That is all it is. If Gordon was serious about this, he wouldn't have set up a stupid talking shop. No doubt this was the idea of some brilliant civil servant.