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Malcolm Fowler's avatar

I shall try to keep this brief since I have posted SO often on this general subject BUT:

1. Where’s the DOSH to come from? It is irrational to proceed on the premise that -yes- re-arranging the deck chairs might suffice.

2. When are the Secretary of State, her relevant Under-Secretaries AND senior officials going to return to OWNING the Commission, rather than persisting in treating it as the dotty relative to be kept in the attic, or -if you will- as surplus rolling stock shunted off into a siding, just in case?

3. Recent Parliamentary comment is on the point and for example Baroness Butler-Sloss AND my good friend Edward Garnier have it right.

4. A full recognition of the parlous and more or less token state it has been allowed to descend into AND a “hands-on” regime change (face to face meetings, full time working , adequately compensated ) is no optional extra. Indeed it never was. I shall return to urging my own MP here in Brum and anyone else available to me to take this seriously and to show demonstrable support for this former “jewel “in Birmingham’s Crown (at least potentially) - after all the shoulder shrugging and the writing off as “been there, done that”.

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eric's avatar
Jun 6Edited

Garnier's bang on, of course. And the appointing of Vera Baird, of all people, is an explicit recognition by the SofS that it can't be a deckchair operation.

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