Altogether now:
'ooooh' *clutch handbag*
He looks about as hard as Tim Henman.
They're not called the 'Fundamentally Supine Authority' for nothing. Their MO in recent years is roughly the equivalent of allowing the Kray Brothers to choose the members of their local CID, with predictable results.
Lord Turner is the ex-head of the CBI, a business organisation courted by both parties that has been strident in its calls for less and less regulation, a call fervently supported by Gordon Brown. Their dearest wish is that regulations should be able to be abolished by government decree with none of that irritating 'parliamentary democracy' stuff getting in the way. There was a bunch called the 'Better Regulation Task Force' a few years back, if memory serves who recommended that sort of thing. Let's see what the CBI had to say about it:
http://www.cbi.org.uk/ndbs/press.nsf...8?OpenDocument
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"The importance of a deregulation incentive structure for civil servants should not be underestimated".
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Coo, that'll help, won't it - giving civil servants a financial incentive not to look at what you're doing? Hang on, Digby Jones? What happened to him?
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As director general of the Confederation of British Industry for six years, Sir Digby Jones - who leaves the government in today's reshuffle - personified British business, calling for lower taxes on business to encourage higher productivity.
When Gordon Brown was looking for someone with the clout to persuade employers to commit to supporting training for employees, particularly those in the low-skills bracket, Jones was the obvious choice.
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That'll be the scheme that's now floundering because the private sector hasn't got the cash any more, because there's a severe recession exacerbated by the kind of low regulation policies championed by My Lord Digby Bloody Jones.
What a shower.
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