tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post8096463989334570886..comments2024-01-23T16:53:02.428+00:00Comments on Mark Thompson: Professor David Nutt's account of events regarding #NuttSackMark Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00744387583593537268noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-32773005723931457032009-11-23T22:42:45.152+00:002009-11-23T22:42:45.152+00:00@Cardinal Richelieu's mole
Nutt wasn't wo...@Cardinal Richelieu's mole<br /><br />Nutt wasn't working for New Labour ministers. He was not a salaried civil servant, but an independent academic chairing an independent government committee that had a duty (in law) to give independent scientific advice.<br /><br />Note that at least one government minister (Draycott) was openly, but rather diplomatically, critical of Johnson (and by implication Smith).<br /><br />The weird thing is that all Johnson needed to do was say that he had disregarded the evidence and independent advice for pragmatic reasons and he would have received rave reviews from the Tory press (which is basically all of it). The only explanation I can think of is either that he was arrogant enough to think that his assessment of the scientific evidence was correct and Nutt (and just about everyone else) wrong or that he is paranoid and genuinely thinks Nutt was conspiring against him.thomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00392478801981388165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-23341908069818423232009-11-21T03:16:38.010+00:002009-11-21T03:16:38.010+00:00I was with you (and Nutt) until the "Openness...I was with you (and Nutt) until the "Openness" principle. Surely no-one is expected to actually believe it, to use it as a guide to action? What planet do such people come from that do? <br /><br />Even accepting a staggering degree of naivety about the normal ways of the world, there can be no excuse in Nutt’s case for failing to appreciate he was working for New Labour ministers whose habitual repudiation of truth and decency cannot be unnoticed even by the most myopic. Nutt and his like should recall to mind the old saying, “He who sups with the devil needs a long spoon”.Cardinal Richelieu's molehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07355424371874064362noreply@blogger.com