How Do We Get To This Point?

To suggest that any of us, or anybody at all, has said or done anything at any time at any of SWT's meetings over the last 6 years that could justify a reference to the police is so utterly barmy that one wonders about the sanity of those suggesting it. See current dispute with SWT.

But how do we get to this point? Is there something 'in the air' in present day administration that accounts for this? Is there something built into the way things are now done that allows managers and officers to believe that they can say anything they want? Could we call this a 'culture of disingenuity'? Do local authorities have anybody 'up there' in a position charged with maintaining some kind of semblance of integrity?

Maybe it all begins like this.

1 Start by talking positive. Don't even see the negative. Talk up your work.
2 Use every legitimate trick to sell your case, even if it's a poor case. (think how a good barrister can get off a guilty client, or a clever salesman can sell a duff product).
3 When you encounter opposition don't discuss the issues, merely repeat that "Everyone else agrees", even when they don't. Complain about negativity (this means having a different view).
4 Continue with the personalising agenda, make them (your opponents) the issue. Anything to avoid the objective scrutiny they want.
5 When they still won't go away increase the personal denigration behind the scenes and 'off the record'.
6 Final trick - character asssassination.