PAIN have repeatedly warned that this type of strategy has been well tested and proven to work – 100% of the time. Isolate, divide and conquer each individual group with exemptions, accommodations, platitudes and special considerations. One at a time, the dissenting voices are silenced at first by self interest and then for self preservation; cooperation guaranteed to preserve a unique, hand crafted status quo, which is made 'unavailable' to those who fail to ‘satisfy’ CASA.
I have watched this game played for over 40 years and industry always falls for it. Nothing has changed: not even those responsible for the total, shambolic disarray in which the regulator has landed this industry. No doubt history will repeat when yet another series of ‘inquiry’ and ‘reports’ provide another raft of recommendations which will, like the last be simply side stepped and discreetly binned, when the noisy minority has been appeased.
I have watched this game played for over 40 years and industry always falls for it. Nothing has changed: not even those responsible for the total, shambolic disarray in which the regulator has landed this industry. No doubt history will repeat when yet another series of ‘inquiry’ and ‘reports’ provide another raft of recommendations which will, like the last be simply side stepped and discreetly binned, when the noisy minority has been appeased.