Originally from: frances fish
                        
2 stories here, recently posted with an alarming similarity to me. One says that after the usual lip service to "consultation", Mrs Beckett is to press ahead with GM crops and technology (despite Public opinon being firmly against this whatever their own spin says to the contrary). She is to disband the very body set up to monitor events and provide guidance. So, no safeguards, no compensation ,no choice, no voice ? Stakeholder groups ? Does anyone believe they make any difference ? Fewer and fewer wil be naive enough to take part. The second story is of 2 knowledgible dissenters in the TSE war of propaganda. Transmissible ? Unproven except in a lab, surely ? Cannot argue against the SE part , only the "T" is extremely dubious to me. 2 scientists who could have made a difference are now out of the equation (does one David Kelly spring to mind ?) Outside of James Bond books, does this sort of thing happen ? Increasingly, many come to the conclusion that it does. Where money or power (usually both), are involved, there are no rules, no ethics, no taboos. Is this still a democracy, is the US ? To me democracy is freedom of speech, freedom of information to make judgements in my life. I fear I have neither.Why does the Government think/know there is voter apathy out here, do you think ? Could just be that few still think that their opinion, based on knowledge that has been censored, sanitised and spun before it ever gets in the Public dormain, doesn't make a scrap of difference. They may protest and argue but no-one will listen. Decisions are made at no. 10 whether people want it or like it or not. Will it stop those with a mind from fighting back ? No. Will it make any difference ? Now, that IS the big question. Just a few New Year thoughts,
Frances
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