1/4 The first release of a bit of the Alternative White Paper (AWP) draws attention to nature of the gulf in thinking between the ERG and the rest. It is not that an MRA approach is wrong, rather that it is a long slow process that would take years & years & years.
2/4 Aside from the more technical, administrative issues, that it because it relies on a high degree of trust, and trust can take a long time to build. The approach does not therefore address issues that require urgent attention and require actions with more immediate effects.
3/4 The AWP response is the familiar one: 'everything is harmonised now, so we can short-circuit the process by starting from where we are.' But that doesn't stand up to questioning: What do you want? (MRAs) When do you want them? (Quickly) Why quickly? (To diverge quickly) Hmm.
4/4 The rhetoric and the arguments themselves are more than sufficient to justify angloscepticism. The foundation stone, trust, has been broken in pieces & it's no use now pretending otherwise. The AWP would have just confirmed the position. Both irrelevant & unhelpful.
