On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:41:09 +0000, thoss
wrote:

Would that it were so. Unfortunately it is being pushed by Ken L, and
he doesn't seem to pay much attention to public opinion.

Public opinion (or a noisy section of it) will object to ANY proposal.
It's easy to block, hard to achieve. Ken is a doer. Rather like
Thatcher was. I rarely agreed with Maggie and sometimes don't with
Ken. But I admire both of them for actually getting things done.