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Originally Posted by Damien
Well they have good planning by all objective methods, the quality of planning is decided by the facts on the ground and not the popularity of the party in power.
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The popularity of the party in power isn't the issue, that's just a symptom of their ineptitude which is the real cause for concern.
WRT 7/7, the emergency services probably did as good a job as could be expected and acted heroically but there were clear shortcomings in the way in which the victims were dealt with at the time and serious failings of emergency communications systems which, so far as I know, have still to be sorted out.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4810368.stm
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...ed-417081.html
I hope WHO is right and, of course, we can all learn lessons after events but the very fact that each time there has been a major emergency, basic issues such as communications failures seem to occur would indicate that planning for events which are known threats is still not adequate.