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politics12h ago
QUENTIN LETTS: 'Resilience committee'... or flower arrangers' meeting?
- Latest: Lords' National Resilience committee hearing described as more like a flower-arrangers’ meeting than a crisis briefing.
- Witnesses included NAO officials and a Resilience Academy head, discussing risk systems and non-linear risk.
- Committee chair and members showed a mix of formality and informal behavior during the session.
- Witness Eleanor Parker of the Resilience Academy described training and learning opportunities in the sector.
- One witness emphasized vulnerabilities and the need for robust risk systems amid possible crop failures and floods.
- The session included commentary on food stockpiling as a national preparedness measure.
- The rhetoric included terms like ‘Consequence Tree,’ ‘interconnectedness,’ and other risk-management jargon.
- An ex-RAF lord asked, 'Are we having the right conversation?' signaling concern about the focus of discussions.
- The article notes a sense of doom about national resilience and risk management.
- The report underscores the committee’s attempt to balance bureaucratic language with practical questions.
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