Sussex wrote:
I know, but TBH I'm quite please no-one has sent an invitation to Sussex Manor inviting me to the meeting. And 31 attendees, all with big fat egos, means that in that 3-hour meeting very few points are going to get across.
Indeed, it all seems a bit unwieldy, and seems unlikely to add much to the sum of human knowledge. What they should or may also be doing is merely asking these people to submit their views on the preliminary points in writing and taking it from there.
A meeting of that size and that duration per se is unlikely to help much, but perhaps that's the kind of thing they have to be seen to be doing to show that they're engaging with 'stakeholders', irrespective of whether or not it's of much substantive use.
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However I think someone should send in a selection of TDO comments to the Law Commissions from all sides of the trade and viewpoints
From the one exploratory email I sent them they seem to be expecting the trade's great unwashed to submit responses at the formal consultation stage next year, ie once they've come up with some concrete proposals.
But clearly from the feedback on here many seem to think that by then it'll all be a bit too late and the whole thing will be something of a fait accompli.
I'm inclined to think that way myself, but in any case I don't think I'll be sumbitting anything substantial to them because I wasted a lot of time on a submission to the OFT and thought that largely pointless, so I doubt if I'll be repeating that mistake.
Not sure if TDO doing anything is a good idea, since there's not really anything likely to appear as regards anything approaching a consensus.
Perhaps better for everyone to send in individual responses, and if they think it'll help then to do so at this time rather than wait for the formal consultation.
And as regards Captain Cab per se, surely he's in a better position than most in that his views will be conveyed via the NTA's representation on the advisory group.
If not then perhaps that begs the question, what's he doing in the NTA?