As someone with a chronic condition i listened to the pronouncements of Lord Justice Leveson http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20543936 on the behaviour of an unruly industry with great interest. As Mayor Johnson http://www.citymayors.com/mayors/london-mayor-johnson.html I think said at some point along in the proceedings (albeit with a better grasp of history and the English language than me) daylight is the best cleanser of squalid practices.

I'd like to have a Leveson style inquiry into the practices of pharmaceutical companies that have also been found guilty of sharp practices. I have a feeling one may not be so forthcoming as there isn't a picture of a teenaged girl attached whilst there are shareholder profits and people's and institutions pensions at risk. that's no reason to not talk about the proposition with as many folk as will listen.
this post isn't finished but I want to strike while the iron is hot.

 I think I know lots of people who share my well founded mistrust of the pharmacos.

We may not count Hugh 'floppy hair' Grant http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/nov/29/taking-on-the-tabloids-hugh-grant or other celebrities trying to enhance their profile amongst us but people with long term health conditions who have to put up with the pharmacos' apparent lack of honesty in reporting trial data, fair pricing, exaggerated efficacy of overpriced products... etc.

We are legion and growing, ignore us at your cost MPs and decision makers.

Our illnesses are debilitating but not deadly - we're not going anywhere in a hurry.