> So we end up with the second raters in charge (while the smart ones go off and do cool stuff) Sir John Harvey-Jones was the one-time chairman of ICI who said

> So we end up with the second raters in charge (while the smart ones go off and do cool stuff) Sir John Harvey-Jones was the one-time chairman of ICI who said he went into business because he saw it as a more effective way to make a difference in the world. I don't think doing cool stuff is incompatible with influencing political decision-making. I dare-say, if you can afford to purchase a few politicians (which is what is really wrong with the system) you could make plenty of changes.