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Re: Response with responsibility

Subject: Re: Response with responsibility
From: Jerry Ross
Date: Dec 18 2009 09:34:06
However sensible its conclusions, this is a curiously self-satisfied
document. It reads more like a promotional puff for the Risk and
Regulation Advisory Council. (And do we really need a section setting
out "a brief history [of] Better Regulation in the UK under the current
Labour Government"? Why do we need to be reminded of the colour of the
current Government...?)
But anyway, thank goodness for Mr Haythornthwaite; because without his
brave and timely intervention, the serried ranks of self-interested,
money-grubbing Risk-Mongers (that's us folks) would have sneaked through
legislation enabling us to foist our services on the public by requiring
every tree in every old lady's garden to be inspected every five years. 

But hang on though; was that how it was?
Personally I recall that most of the reasoned opposition to what was,
after all, only a draft discussion document, actually came from within
the industry.
But setting aside his equating the moral integrity of our profession
with that of bankers, and however much we may applaud (and I do) the
encouragement of a more rational attitude towards risk, I do find the
self-congratulatory tone leaves a rather unpleasant taste in the mouth. 




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