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It's the politicians responsibility.

If you are say, writing IP and finance code, is it your responsibility to seek legal counsel or is it the legal profession's responsibility to somehow find you, discover what you are doing, and then impose themselves upon you?

In public companies, the process is a bit different, but the idea is the same. Say the CEO or other senior management "writes" a press release...

(I put this in quotes because they don't put pen to paper, it's done by someone else obviously, but these are their words)

It may be copyedited by Comms for tone and grammar, as well as fact checked by someone who is an expert in the subject - but also by Legal if it touches on relevant issues. In that case, they will seek you out, if only for CYA reasons, before it goes out the door.

It's on the people making the laws to make sure that said laws are up-to-date and appropriate. It's literally their job. Blame them for not doing it well.
Hard to be more active when the architects of Brexit have strongly made clear that they’ve “had enough of experts” when they failed to find a single expert economist who thought Brexit was a good idea[1].

I don’t know which is sadder that our current leaders are so incompetent or that people must have known that and voted them in with a big majority anyway. Speaks to how poor the opposition were too.

A pox on both your houses! :P

1. https://www.indy100.com/people/coronavirus-advice-experts-mi...

Full Gove quote: "I think the people in this country have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong."

The ones _getting it consistently wrong_ being key... yet rarely quoted.

We should be keeping track of predictions from those who want to be called experts, and retrospectively grading them/enumerating their successes and failures.

Why? Expertise within a specific field does not equal political ambitions.
Why does political activism have to be related to political ambitions? (I'm assuming you mean personal ambitions). Of course you could be an expert within a field but also try to promote or intervene in some decisions with your knowledge, without greater political aspirations. Is not a requirement, but if you're interested in providing useful insights from your field, just go for it.
Well, having a political goal and actively pursuing that goal counts as political ambition in my book, regardless if the motivation is personal gain or not.

Regardless, I didn't mean that experts shouldn't get involved in politics. It's just that experts care and don't care about politics to the same extent everyone else does. There's no reason why an expert within a given field should be expected to care more than anyone else.

Politics is for those who want to control other people