Bollocks.
If the main issue is that the game is broken then it is absolutely your responsibility as an advisor to point this out. Anything less is intellectual cowardice.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:36, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

You're meant to bring that up in private not in the media.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:44, Reply)

he probably did, wasn't listened to so pitched for wider support

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:45, Reply)

Because ... ?
He was an expert advisor to a government that made a big deal about open government and evidence-based policy making. How dare he make public statements based upon his expertise. What a shit.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:46, Reply)

If I go to a meeting here and say "doing things that way will be a waste of money"
then don't persuade them enough to change their course, I shouldn't go crying to the papers.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:47, Reply)

You do come and bitch about it on here though

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:49, Reply)

Yeah but you cunts aren't in positions of power.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:51, Reply)

Again ... because ... ?
The decisions and decision-making processes of government should be transparent. If you don't agree with the way decisions are made then you have a responsibility to involve the fourth estate.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 14:51, Reply)