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  Howard - there will be good and bad in all walks of life.
  
  With the current set-up you have the regulator (the forestry commission) also being a major land owner. That would be like making BT the regulator of telecommunications. It is simply wrong.
  
  There seems to be an assumption that if something is owned by the government it is better protected and that is simply not true.
  
  Too many people place too much faith in government and too little in private ownership. That is simply too simplistic. Given the choice in virtually everything, except defence and law/order, I would place my faith in private first with the state well down the list. But the point is I am not dogmatic about it. I get a feeling, including on this forum, that a lot of defenders of the status quo and of the state are very dogmatic and will always be very quick to jump on the private bad/state good bandwagon and that flies in the face of history and reality.

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