Failures
Arguably the biggest failure was the party-political aspect of the launch of the Commission. The Commission was first launched by the Conservative Party, which lead to a mistaken belief that the resulting report would be biased to one political viewpoint. More significantly, the belief of political bias lead to the refusal of some organisations to co-operate with the commission, most notably the Bank of England, seemingly after pressure from the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown.
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“If tragedy elicits our compassion, comedy appeals to our self-interest. The former confronts life’s failures with noble fortitude, the latter seeks to circumvent them with shrewd nonchalance. The one leaves us momentarily in a mood of resignation, the other in a condition of euphoria.”
—Harry Levin (b. 1912)
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—Frances E. Willard 1839–1898, U.S. president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union 1879-1891, author, activist. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 137-40 (January 1887)