The annotation was necessary because not everyone is as insightful and informed as you deem yourself to be. It was not annotated for smartasses, but to place it in context for the large majority among the press, public and politicians who will otherwise not grasp any of the points brought out, or get wholly the wrong end of the stick.
We have considerable experience of being misunderstood ourselves, of the scheme being understood, and of the Home Office's capacity to mislead an audience that doesn't know its way around the issue. Even the ministers nominally in charge are frequently just reading out their briefs without a flicker of comprehension.
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The annotation was necessary because not everyone is as insightful and informed as you deem yourself to be. It was not annotated for smartasses, but to place it in context for the large majority among the press, public and politicians who will otherwise not grasp any of the points brought out, or get wholly the wrong end of the stick. We have considerable experience of being misunderstood ourselves, of the scheme being understood, and of the Home Office's capacity to mislead an audience that doesn't know its way around the issue. Even the ministers nominally in charge are frequently just reading out their briefs without a flicker of comprehension.