This is the culture that exists and it resists the notion that fortuitous enrichment, which is what happens to the owners of development land, should have a social obligation. As the Minister pointed out, large numbers of planning permissions were sought and were going to wither at the end of the year because people would not take them up. The excuse is that the system is too bureaucratic. Every time public intervention in society has been attacked, the first code word used by the reactionary right is that it is too bureaucratic. National health services, public education, regulation of energy markets and so on are too bureaucratic. One of the pet phrases of George Bush and his acolytes is, "It is too bureaucratic."