Interesting to hear the Prime Minister being interviewed/interrogated by John Humphrys this morning. The PM in effect saying that 'all change' was the order of the day and there is no time to waste. Humphrys was saying that it is all too quick, mistakes will be made etc. They focused on the NHS and Andrew Lansley's mission to rid us of PCTs and localise decision making to GPs (whether they are ready or not?).
Has the PM really put Oliver Letwin and Danny Alexander on his shoulder just in case he is running too enthusiastically?
I can't help but relate these conversations to the trading standards world I am closest to. I accept that any Government will look to get the bad news out of the way in the first half of it's reign so the preoccupation with speed rather than distance is to be expected. But we only need to look at the Parliamentary debates around the Public Bodies Bill which seeks to abolish consumer relevant organisations like Consumer Focus and the Office of Fair Trading to know that there are real concerns around 'more haste less speed'.
It feels like we are all caught in extra turbulent waters. The key is to know how to swim and not sink.
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