English Yokel

Is it time for a Campaign?

Yokel has noticed that the Home Office web site has been approved by the Plain English campaign. Though reading it he wonders if the plain English campaign had English teachers from a different school than the one his teachers attended!

But you know, he pondered to himself, there must be room for another campaign. He wondered if there was a business opportunity here, selling a web site logo to those who have been examined and found exemplary. Could be, but if the fee was charged for the award of the logo, business might be a bit thin. Few businesses or agencies (or even Ministries) will gladly pay to be told they have failed. And they definitely wouldn't like being told! For you see, Yokel's idea is to have a Plain Honesty Campaign.

Why were the Serious Fraud Office pulled off BAe? It could have been their only success in years! Why was the outcome of the Loans for Peerages investigation a "No realistic chance of conviction"? Has every person in the country become so accepting of lawbreaking that a typical jury would have found the buying of peerages to be in compliance with the law? Why were all the papers recently full of the current investigation into donors to NuLabour and the preferential treatment they got in return? Couldn't be that they are trying the same trick again, could it? So much out in the public domain already, your honour, no chance of a fair trial now!

No, as a business proposition the Plain Honesty Campaign is dead in the water. Better sit and think of another idea.