"Frank Erskine" wrote in message
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On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:36:13 -0000, ":::Jerry::::"
wrote:

He didn't do anything in the 'docks', AIUI he was a *SHIPS*
steward
[1], the problem is not so much Prescot but the fact that he
doesn't
have a real HMG position (being on the left of the Tor... sorry
Labour Party) and thus he is thinking up solutions and then trying
to
find a problem to use them on...

Which is exactly what this "Government" is good at - making
legislation which either cannot be enforced or has the opposite
effect
to what it is intended to do.


Yes, but there is a difference, it's one thing making 'bad law' were
there *is* a problem to be solved [1], it's something quite different
to make bad law were there is *no* problem to solve...

[1] which although not good, it is defensible