Should we turn the running of the country over to the experts?

[anotheoldgit]

http://tinyurl.com/24ttlaa

Isn't it time we employed 'Technical Advisor's' taken from the ranks of the top businessmen, to advise the politicians on how to run the country?

[anotheoldgit]

mdoo98

And your point is???????????????

[fredpuli47]

Experts? Someone who starts by selling jeans from a small shop and ends up owniing great chains of retailers, all of which he bought when they were losing money or going nowhere through inefficiency,might just qualify as an expert ! The first thing he did when he bought one chain was to ask who supplied the coat-hangers and demand a sight of the contract. He then tore it up! He couldn't see the point in it.As a bonus the shops were giving the hanger away with each garment.He stopped that as well. The two together saved the business hundreds of thousands at a stroke, just for one small thing which the management never thought of.
That's the attitude which old firms and any government generally haven't got.
We need more of his kind to help.

[ludwig]

I thought we already did. Wasn't Alan Sugar one of those?

[ludwig]

Governments have an interesting approach to advisors anyway AOG - if the advisor comes up with advice that matches what they wanted to do anyway, that's all good - the advisor's doing a great job. If the advice differs from government policy, they tend to get the sack.

[jake-the-peg]

There is a difference to taking the correct action and what is politically acceptable.

A good case in point is Professor Nutt's advice on drug policy.

The other issue is that the government is elected to act and to take responsibility for those actions.

You may find that is not a burden too many experts actualy want to share whether they are academics or businessmen - if they did they'd probably be in politics

[rov1200]

Its a good idea to get help from the business community. None of the top politicians seemed to have ever worked in the real world and trying to tell the rest of us how to behave is plainly wrong. The problem is accepting the NIH (not invented here) syndrone by getting unpaid individuals to solve the nation's ills.

[Oneeyedvic]

Ah, the great expert - the person whose shop sold 'naughty' underwear for under 7 year old girls

The expert who robs the British public of tax by buying Arcadia in his wifes name (a Monaco resident).

The expert who is willing to use sweatshops and keep people in poverty.

Got to love those experts.

[youngmafbog]

//The Government is elected to take responsibility for their actions//

So where is Noo labour now then Jake ?

[sandyRoe]

Didn't the experts who ran the banks help run the economy off the rails?

[anotheoldgit]

/// The expert who robs the British public of tax by buying Arcadia in his wifes name (a Monaco resident) ///

Are you saying, that you wouldn't have done the same, given the chance?

Accountants do this type of thing but on a much more smaller scale all day long, finding loop-holes so their clients can evade paying tax.

/// The expert who is willing to use sweatshops and keep people in poverty.///

How much more would these people be in poverty, if these firms were to withdraw their work back to the UK?
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