I don't know why BristolScout was so dismissive of ambidextrous post, but one point of information:
Although the CAA charges those whom it regulates (ie those compelled to be its customers), it does not have a remit to "Promote the industry".
In what some may regard as a contrast, the FAA's mission includes "being responsive to our customers and accountable to the public."
"A regulator being answerable to it's regulatees is a contradiction in terms."
Some may think it's possible for a regulator to be answerable to both the public and to those it regulates. ie If circumstances arise where there really is a conflict (or potential conflict) between the two then, after proper evaluation of the competing interests and arguments, the decision should be that which is most likely to achieve the greater good. In short, a balancing exercise in which proper regard is had to both interests.
FL