Originally Posted by Damien

It's not rubbish although I have since revised the analogy.

Impartiality can blind you to information you may not like. You want people who'll be honest with you and give you sound advice not obscured by their personal motivations. If we have a weakness we need to know about it, if we're overplaying a hand we may not win we need to know about. Demanding we want biased experts is madness.

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won't help us. Thankfully I doubt the government will recruit such people and go after professionals instead.

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Then what's the point in hiring them at all? You pay me £250,000 a year and I'll tell you how great you are however many times you want.