Even when they do the right thing they still manage to be unprincipled tossers
Posted by Andrew Adams on January 22, 2009
Filed Under Politics |
It’s good to see that Gordon Brown has done a u-turn (for now) on exempting MPs’ expense claims from the Freedom of Information Act.
It would also be nice if he had accepted that he was wrong in principle and agreed that in a democracy it is essential that our elected representatives are properly accountable and should not be given special exemptions from the law. But no, he has instead decided to make a cheap political point and blame the Tories
He said: “We thought we had agreement on the Freedom of Information Act as part of this wider package.”
“Recently that support that we believed we had from the main opposition party was withdrawn.”
Of course it is typical of New labour that even when they introduce decent, liberal legislation they have to try to undermine it themselves. This is not the first time they have tried to scupper the FoI act and they similarly want to neuter the Human Rights Act. What can one say, except what I have said in the title above.
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