Do health and safety managers run the country?

摘要

OVER THE New Year, the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 held a debate and listeners' poll under the heading Who runs Britain? Various public figures made short speeches arguing that the nation is really ruled by everyone from Gordon Brown to the internet search engine Google. The poll was eventually topped by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, with Rupert Murdoch and the Westminster parliament as runners up (see www.bbc.co.uk/ra-dio4/today/vote/whorunsbritain/ index.shtml for the full results).