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We may appear a bunch of anoraks, and if it gets sticky, somebody might come along in full John Reid mode and suggest that we are trying to get in the way of dealing with crime and dangerous weapons.
Is it not surprising that what we know to be most effective gets the least resource, and what we know to be least effective gets the majority of the resource?
Are you saying that you asked for A-Z and the Executive said, "No, you can only get A-M"? Yes, although it was probably more the case that we could get up to only F or G.
However, that might change if a message went out from the committee that we would propose legislation if judges did not get their act together and disqualify horses that had been couped.
The regulation is a mess that seems to be twirling around inside itself and not getting anywhere. Before you answer that point, I would like to ask a procedural question.