nuts securing the tower to its baseplate were removed

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Not just the Nats though. The power situation has been long in the making, successive governments have failed to grasp the nettle. Bit like a fair few other issues really...

Makes me wonder why we bother with 'democracy'.

We get to vote in or out the talking heads that inhabit parliament but as 'Yes Minister' so eloquently showed it is actually the bureaucrats and heads of government departments that hold sway in how our country functions in real terms.