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You're right in a way, but the DCMS Select Committee are not:
1) Permanently engaged with doing nothing but looking at cheating in sport
2) Members of the government
3) More than 1.7% of all MPs
Saying they have more important things to deal with is like telling a PCSO who tells you off for dropping litter that they should be off shutting down paedophile rings.
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I've no problem whatsoever with parliamentary scrutiny of taxpayers' money, which essentially what this boils down to.
But to use 'an anonymous but well respected' source as the main source of your accusations doesn't sit well with me, then to make the headline that Sky crossed an ethical line, which doesn't exist, is fundamentally wrong. They either broke the rules of the sport or they didn't, and all the available evidence says they didn't, so there is no case to answer.
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The reason why they are involved or have chosen to be is in the name of the committee. Your concerns about a PCSO will be addressed elsewhere.
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Peter_Carter
I hope you're tutting over MPs sticking their noses into stuff which is absolutely none of their business. Firstly, cheating at games is not a matter with which a national government need concern itself, since games are a private contract between consenting adults who have their choice of civil tribunal to decide any disputes, and secondly if anything happened here, it happened in a foreign country to the detriment of foreign nationals, so it's not even peripherally related to any proper function of the UK parliament or government. Wiggins is a twat, Brailsford is a dick, but neither have done me any harm whereas politicians grandstanding over matters far outside their remit while neglecting their proper duties is bad for all of us.