In message , Philip Eden
writes

No odds, Tudor ... it's a sweep. Winner takes all.
My tongue, of course, was firmly (if only half) in cheek.
Nevertheless I see no argument for a meteorological
service of the future to be a nationalised one. Already
there are practically no observers in government service,
the number of forecasters is diminishing and will continue
so to do ... I wonder what the ratio of paperclip-counters
to 4B-wielders is now? Investment in research will become
increasingly hard to justify as return per research-pound
decreases, etc, etc, etc.

Philip Eden


Oh dear another illusion shattered.

Good forecaster you may well be Philip but sadly you seem to be yet
another right wing ideologue. Private is best and all that.

What a shame.
--
Bill