"There is no case law determitive of what a performabce is" - so why the bloody hell didn't he write a definition in his proposed guidelines for the various authorities to kicjk around and agree on? These academics are supposed to use their brains aren't they?

Rhetorical rant over.

Looking through the House of Lords stuff, what struck me was that, every time they came up with an example of the current law being used inappropriately and repressively, the response from the good Lord Bashem or whatever his name is, was that such stupid things couldn't happen, and they'd involve a perverse interpretation of the law and so forth. And he was talking about the kind of thing the Chief Executive is going to be defending.

Go get 'im!