rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What happened to evidence based policy? Government > Ministers should take a Hippocratic oath - first > do no harm. Big systematic changes should always > be trialed and outcomes properly analysed, before > being implemented more widely. Shake ups in health > and education should only be made on the basis of > good evidence that they'll be effective, otherwise > patients and children suffer, just to ministers > can enjoy tinkering. There is just so much random > on the hoof policy announced, seemingly based on > little more than the 24 hour news cycle and the > wim of some minster or other. Where are the grown > ups? Given that politicians are power crazy, vote-seeking self-serving brainless fools in the main- and the prime objective is toeing the party line and keeping the power- there are no grown-ups. I myself walked the walk and talked the talk on 2 occasions, and managed to get myself ensconced and 'powerful' twice in left-wing circles- I soon realised what the heck was going on during the first sortie- the second sortie was purely out of self-interest, but I was successful- despite being a dyed-in-the-wool Tory