The man on the street may not understand the problems of companies that manufacture components for e.g. airliners. Those industries probably do need to be able to communicate what's affecting them and the government probably does need to at least consider such things in the overall plan. The question might be: how much do we need to consider it. e.g. Big tobacco - should we care if they die out completely?

Us little guys probably want to hear the contents of those meetings so we can check that they do make sense. Private influencing is dangerous.

We also don't want people going from the Ministry of Defence or the Army straight into working for a defence company - that should be illegal and yet it happens a lot here in the UK.

Civil servants and politicians should get a comfortable pension and be unemployable for 3 years after their term.