Overreacting to Werritty

The Werritty case has made everyone who believes that government is controlled by lobbyists and tycoons slaver. The Guardian screams that Ministers held more than 1,500 meetings with corporate representatives in the first 10 months of the coalition, which presumably the newspapers’ readers know to disapprove of. But how many unionists did Labour meet after a year in office — and how many corporations? The party that declared itself “relaxed” about profit-making presumably met one or two profit-makers. Or did Ed Balls, when he was City minister, stay away from the Square Mile?

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Rupert Darwall

Labour has walked into a net-zero trap of its own making

I don’t know the numbers, but I am sure they would reveal that governments from Left and Right tend to meet a range of groups to take views, sample reactions to policy, respond to criticism etc.