Health and Safety

The last 10 years have seen the rise and rise of the Health and Safety industry, turning sensible concern into interfering and controlling. Quite hysterically I read that "Nut warning labels on peanut packets and rules banning conker matches and homemade cakes at school fetes could be targeted by a new watchdog set up by Gordon Brown to encourage a spirit of adventure.

The new Risk and Regulatory Advisory Council is part of a drive to improve the way risk is understood and managed by Government and is likely to be a shot across the bows of the "health and safety police".

The council will look at policies such as unnecessary food labelling - for example, when the words "may contain nuts" are printed on packets of peanuts.

There is concern that health and safety laws are stopping the public from having fun."


Brilliant, after 10 years of encouraging this bollocks, now Gordon Brown will spend even more public money on a body to investigate reducing some of the policies. "Good money after bad" is one phrase that comes to mind; another is "f*** off Gordon".