It's very simple. The whole philosophy behind the CAA is to shift the burden of compliance from the regulator to the operator. You could easily argue that, under this philosophy, you don't even need the CAA, just a book of rules that all operators would comply with, because we all know that all operators always obey all the rules... right?
We need to get back to a philosophy that is somewhere between the FAA and JAA - preferably a system that is recognised by both.
Even on the level that I have to deal with the CAA on most often - licensing - you find an incompetent collection of jobsworths that have probably never had an original thought in their lives. Very frustrating - but you can forgive them a little for having to work under a system that makes no logical sense.
Time to get rid of these clowns and put a system in place that actually reflects the realities of aviation.
Sadly the disease seems to have spread to the authors of Vectors (have a look at the wake turbulence article).