It's heart-warming to see that the Government is starting 2006 as they ended 2005: hypocrits.
The latest example of hypocrisy is on display with the Government's desire for a Commission of Inquiry into the BELCO fire, because according to PLP Senator Walter Roban on VSB news last night, the Government is both the "protector of the public interest" and the "chief regulator of BELCO as a monopoly".
Now I've already had it out in the press with Education Minister Terry Lister who seemed offended that I thought an inquiry into the 47% failure rate in the public school system was of greater public interest than a fire at a power plant. He disagreed.
So here we are again, in the New Year, with our bud Senator Roban prattling on about the public good and the need to prevent a repeat of this incident.
Which is funny really. Because you may recall that Government vehemently objected to calls for an inquiry into the burning of somewhere in the range of $70M, when all is said and done, at the Berkeley incinerator, er I mean school, project in addition to rejecting calls for the arbitration to be held in public.
It's amazing how this nonsense is delivered with a straight face.
