Can you blinking believe this?
Concerning EU: Telecoms Council Agenda for 12 June 2008...
"On the second question, I intend to take the opportunity to emphasise the importance the UK attaches to independent regulators separated from market participants and the day-to-day pressure of politics."
Baroness Vadera (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform; Labour)
The importance the UK attaches to dependent market regulators?
Is this woman taking the Micky?
I've got a letter open in front of me now, currently banging copies off left right and centre, which includes these quotes from a certain regulator (Richard Thomas, please resign btw);
“BT’s view is that as the 2007 trial was small scale and technical in nature and no adverts were served” .
“On this basis, and taking into account the difficulties involved in providing meaningful and clear information to customers… in this case, this is not an issue we intend to pursue further with BT” .
“We've worked with BT and Phorm and we are not going to take any punitive action at this stage" .
PS A thought, if you're in the process of writing to Vivane Reding (EC Commissioner) perhaps it would be worth emphasising how independent the Information Commissioner Richard Thomas
ISN'T.