I did email the address given with some questions. They just ignore you.

It’s odd. They ignore me, too. Does anyone have enough “leverage” to demand an engaged response? We may soon see.

Guys – you’re taking our dosh for your salaries and pensions, and doing something really annoying – no, worse than that: illiberal and corrosive. Then you get all “unimpressed”. Well excuse me.

I did ask a psychologist who observed IPS in action about this.
He opined that it was classic “groupthink” …

The diagnosis looks pretty convincing. Did the psychologist have a prescription? How can the patient be cured? What is the prognosis?

Wikipedia gives the “classic symptoms” of groupthink as –

1. Illusions of invulnerability creating excessive optimism and encouraging risk taking.
2. Rationalising warnings that might challenge the group’s assumptions.
3. Unquestioned belief in the morality of the group, causing members to ignore the consequences of their actions.
4. Stereotyping those who are opposed to the group as weak, evil, disfigured, impotent, or stupid.
5. Direct pressure to conform placed on any member who questions the group, couched in terms of “disloyalty”.
6. Self censorship of ideas that deviate from the apparent group consensus.
7. Illusions of unanimity among group members, silence is viewed as agreement.
8. Mindguards — self-appointed members who shield the group from dissenting information.

He opined that it was classic “groupthink” as first coined to describe the Kennedy administration around the Bay of Pigs. Powerful leader with poor listening skills starts to obsess about some simplistic solution, surrounds self with yes men (“mindguards” as opposed to bodyguards, ie people who prevent any alternate thinking penetrating the outer shell).

Result: disaster, foreseen by everyone else, which comes as an incomprehensible complete shock to those involved.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink