Reason declared ? Regardless of the legal position, wasn't that just a bit short-sighted ?
Aside from my comment above. there is some bloody good advice here.
Really ? Think you missed the point. The concept of integrating social services with the trust is not dependent on numbers. Could be rolled out elsewhere.
Or Gordon Brown....who spectacularly announced to the world that he was going to bail out the economy by selling our gold reserves thus ensuring the market dived. They are all (for the most part) as bad as each other.