Martin Vickers MP on the horse meat scandal
Cleethorpes MP Martin Vickers writes in the Telegraph today about the horse meat scandal - here is an extract…
“EVENTS dear boy, events”, as Harold MacMillan famously said, is what governments should fear.
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CONFUSION: Consumers are real victims of the horsemeat scandal.
The unexpected will always happen. The events can often be the responsibility of some outside agency but however powerless ministers are on any given issue the buck will always stop with them.
In the case of the horsemeat scandal the Food Standards Agency are the responsible people and when all goes well, that’s fine, but as soon as problems arise it’s the poor old minister who is in the limelight.
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Like the BSE issue in the 1990s it has crept up almost unnoticed and is causing the Government no end of problems. In part that is because we have “exported” responsibility for food and farming policy to the EU.
3 Comments
by nietzche
Thursday, February 21 2013, 8:40PM
“all you who voted for this clown remember this drivel next election and place your X next to ukip but don't embarrass us locals by reelecting this idiot what must those in Westminster be thinking of us putting our trust in such a fool....”
by williampink
Wednesday, February 20 2013, 3:49PM
“What is he talking about, it was his government that sacked eight hundred inspectors.What did he expect?”
by davendogs
Wednesday, February 20 2013, 2:38PM
“Is he for real. That seems to me to be somewhat evasive on the issue, oh, and why is it being described as events? Will it be described as events if we eat larry the lamb or babe the pig?”