Goodness me!! we've gone the full gambit now havnt we, from "Hoy! hang on a sec that cant be right?" to shrieking 'You've got to be joking?" to total disbelief, now all thats left is "taking the p ss" which perhaps is the final indication of just how much respect our regulator commands within the industry.
There has been a slow realisation that our regulator is corrupt. Lots of individual voices protesting, lots of hand wringing, finally utter frustration when the realisation dawns that without cohesion the industry simply dosnt have the financial resources to beat the spin. The "enemy", that cancer eating the heart out of the industry so many of us love, has the public purse to spend.
The "Industry" to a large extent has always been a labour of "Love", financially fragile, yet so vital for so many in our community. Hard pressed to pay the wages bill, let alone fight rapacious, corrupt beauracrats, in the court of public opinion. They can draw on the limitless recources of the taxpayer to convince the public and their political masters, that the industry is populated by a bunch of homocidal, criminal maniacs hell bent on their destruction.
The PAIN group seems to be gaining traction, thank god, finally we seem to have politicians with the capacity to see through the "spin" and hold these corrupt incompetent clowns to book.
Corruption breeds corruption, if PAIN is successful it can only be good for the whole country.
Last edited by thorn bird; 11th Nov 2012 at 08:37.