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I posted the following e-mail. I'm sure it could be improved a lot but thought I'd share it, in case anyone else wants to adapt it and use it,
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There's no point in me recounting every detail in this article
But let it suffice that as an IT professional since the early 1990s, I wholeheartedly endorse all the points made. It is of the utmost importance for the benefit of consumers and businesses generally and for the fostering of resilience, independence, innovation and competition that the most open, free, transparent, interoperable, equitable and secure practices prevail and are not subject to lobbying by the very companies that have self-interest in avoidance of such impositions.
Leadership of the CMA must demonstrate nonpartisan characteristics, whatever their previous history, or may be judged to have corrupted their obligation to act in the long-term public interest for both consumers & businesses (in the wider sense)
The recent prosecution of 'misconduct in public office' for various public figures looks like it may be the mechanism du jour for encouraging those in public office to cast aside their partisan interests in favour of longer term strategic and societal benefits.
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Perhaps the last paragraph was a little OTT, but I couldn't resist.
