In a normal democracy, any study putting government policy in a bad light would be seized upon by at least one opposition party or engaged single MP, and someone would force the government to defend itself, be in parliament or media. Yet, over the past year or so, I can recall the media echo of only one or two damning TUC studies entering public discourse this way. This is very sobering. (IOW, you and people like you should really try to run for MP candidate again...)

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}