Okay.
We also have difficulty having complicated, joined-up policy discussions when issues cross policy fields, because so much of our policy-making involves ministers and their political staff making policy on the fly and behind closed doors.
As you make your decisions and as we reflect on this national failure, think about how to solve those systemic issues in policy-making, and not just come up with how to make the right policy. Absent really basic changes in the way we make decisions in complex policy areas, the nature of the next crisis might be different, but the basic dilemma of poor policy-making will remain.
