Originally Posted by
Captain Smithy
So, there you are then - it's the Government with their leaden fists
again screwing everything up.
If it's security that Dave, Nick, George and the other hateful tossers are so worried about, I'd be more concerned about what retribution a certain cheesed-off Libyan dictator might be planning, as opposed to paralysing the activities of private aviators in the South...
Smithy
Wake up at the back there.
1) Regulatory body publishes outrageously draconian proposals, conceived in-house on the basis of vague mandate from political management.
2) Affected community goes ballistic. Preparations are made for lawsuits. Community girds loins to apply heat direct to political management.
3) Attention is brought to how regulator inflicted massive damage on another section of the community less than 24 months ago on the basis of an equally unsubstantiated safety case.
4) Regulatory body has collective trouser-accident, wheels out spin-doctor to try and shift the focus of blame elsewhere.