Blair plan for 'people's panels'

Blair has called for the formation of "people's panels" to advise on how to push through public service reforms.

"One of Mr Blair's aides said the "major extension" in public engagement would go some way to providing a "crucial route map to the future".
He said: "It recognises that politics is changing, the public level of expectations is rising both in terms of the provision which they receive and the right which they have to influence those services.
"This engagement process will identify in more detail the areas which the public want us to focus on and develop a series of radical and progressive solutions," he added."

What is the point of peoples panels? Hiding behind hand picked people's panels is every bit the gimmick that the Big Conversation was, and at least in 2003 the Government had a shred of credibility.

Why not do us all a favour for once and tell it like it is?

What we are talking about is wholesale Government interference in people's lives.

Smoking, over-eating, eating the wrong things, alcohol consumption will be first on the list and the Government intends to embark on withdrawal of service from those sectors of society that refuse to do what they are told.

Notwithstanding that we pay for the services, we will soon have to qualify for what we get. If we do not fill our side of the "contract" we will not receive the service.

Mr Blair, do us all a favour and mind your own business, stay out of our lives, your kind concern is not required. As far as services are concerned, we pay for them, you deliver them. That is the contract, it's not for you to tell us what we should do in order to qualify for "your" services. You work for us not the other way round.

If you can't afford the services anymore I suggest you stop giving our money away to other countries, and stop spending it subsidising the social engineering you are engaging in.

After all, it's not as if you haven't taken enough of it is it? (See previous post)

People's panels