Sir, – Alan Shatter got it dead right on the Marian Finnucane Showon Saturday morning.
Yes, we do want to get rid of expensive tribunals. Yes, we do want the government to be allowed to inquire into important issues of public importance.
Yes, we don’t trust politicians to regulate themselves.
He proves the point completely by his arrogance, by declaring that the public should trust politicians to do the right thing! – Yours, etc,