Every time this government is presented with evidence or example of the foolishness of one of their policies they react exactly the same way -

"We believe that it will have the desired effect, as we always said"

They seem incapable of reevaluating their ideas, in favour of just carrying on blindly because they've made their decision now.

It's also yet another demonstartion of their total lack of evidence for their policies. Gut-based legislation is not only worrying, it's downright scary. See - "Extreme Porn", "Lethal Skunk" and, well, pretty much everything else they do for further examples.

I don't quite get how this happened. When New Labour first came to power they removed some licensing restrictions, downgraded weed and seemed generally like they had freedom and good policy on their minds. What went wrong? When did Nanny take over?