very good/funny.
I wonder if Johnson will venture onto the Today Programme and risk being asked by them which other experts he has consulted in order to cast aside the view of Professor Nutt et al?
It reminds me slightly when Darling said the UK economy would grow by some alarming rate by the end of 2010 and everyone looked at him as if he had gone mad. When he said his forecast was agreed by experts he singularly failed to say who they were. A pity that his prick of conscience came several months later when he refused to back his boss's view that if the Government had not acted as it did then the unemployment needle would have gone off the screen!
So as you point out in your 'spoof' letter - someone who is not an expert asks a set of experts for their candid view and then sacks the head expert because he doesn't like what he hears but on the pretence that he crossed the line into political speak. So if an expert says this is what I think and the government takes a completely different and false line and is then challenged - the expert is wrong and gets sacked from a non fee paying role.
I've not read Johnson's article but assumes he also says why Professor Nutt is wrong. If he says what the basis is for him saying he is wrong then if I were Professor Nutt assuming he can be ar??? to do so - I'd challenge Mr Johnson and tell him not to cross the line into matters he knows nothing about. The interview he Nutt) did with the BBC after gettng the sack was great because his reputation is intact and he said 'PM wasn't interested in what we had to say...' because like his Home Secretary - he's a bloody expert on everything as he keeps on telling us!
Next we will have Bob 'elicopter' Ainsworth telling us the General have got their military tactics wrong on account of a film he once saw!
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Spoof letter....? by 'vic' (02 Nov 2009 @ 13:24)
