Striking the Right Balance between Privacy and Public Protect ion

[Ian G Batten]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Ian G Batten wrote:
> I'm not that paranoid either.  Any massive conspiracy requires that the
> Home Office have realised how contentious the original instrument would
> have be, and there's no evidence they did, so anything which smacks of
> preparatory scaffolding for spinning is unlikely to have happened.

A combination of typos and stupidity renders that particular sentence
gibberish, as the tenses shift wildly.  How about:

  Any massive conspiracy requires that the Home Office had realised in
  advance how contentious the original instrument was going to be, and
  there's no evidence they did...

ian