RETURN TO SANITY


I am moved by David Harris's letter (see 2006 Gazette, 5 October, 18). In essence, he says he was driven out of business by so-called reforms and then insulted by run-off insurance payments. He is one of many at the anvil of 'marketisation', whatever that means (it is not English as learnt at school and my computer spell-check says it is not in the dictionary).



We are a battered profession, seeking to serve a battered public. Nobody who thinks about it really wants to work with ambulance-chasing vermin, but some are driven into their grasp by ever more swingeing cuts in public funding.



I suggest a sensible structured debate about all funding issues, devoid of political agenda, concentrating on what is good for the client as well as the profession. My nearest and dearest tell me I am wrong about most things, but I beg for the return of sanity and a consequential respect and proper practice of the rule of law so sadly denied to many people.



Lindsay Keith, Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex