January 21, 2010
The government, it seems, has unwittingly hit on a micro-solution to tackle unemployment among academics.
It follows the news that David Nutt - the government's former chief drugs adviser, who was sacked last year for criticising ministers in the wake of the reclassification of cannabis, has set up his own advisory panel.
The government's five-step plan is as follows:
A Google search for 'UK government advisory committees' revealed that there are committees for: Human Genetics, Nutrition, Business Appointments, Misuse of Drugs, Planning, Building and the Environment, Irradiated and Novel Foods, Pandemic Influenza, Social Security, Migration Animal, Disabled Persons' Transport, Genetic Testing, Local Authority Recycling... the list goes on and on.
Just think how many new jobs this lot could create if ministers sacked them all and they all got the hump and started rival groups?
It follows the news that David Nutt - the government's former chief drugs adviser, who was sacked last year for criticising ministers in the wake of the reclassification of cannabis, has set up his own advisory panel.
The government's five-step plan is as follows:
- First appoint a panel with a specific brief to advise on scientific subjects. This panel consists of experts who give their time for free, for the good of the nation.
- Next, when the panel gives you some advice you don't like, you sack the chair.
- Other members, incensed at your high-handedness, will then quit.
- You find another bunch of 'experts' to replace them.
- But, and here's the clever part, the originals then set themselves up as an 'independent' group in competition, with financial support.
A Google search for 'UK government advisory committees' revealed that there are committees for: Human Genetics, Nutrition, Business Appointments, Misuse of Drugs, Planning, Building and the Environment, Irradiated and Novel Foods, Pandemic Influenza, Social Security, Migration Animal, Disabled Persons' Transport, Genetic Testing, Local Authority Recycling... the list goes on and on.
Just think how many new jobs this lot could create if ministers sacked them all and they all got the hump and started rival groups?
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