Private Members, Special Circumstances

An empty suit has expressed its support for the private members' bill tabled by the former Conservative chief whip, David Maclean. The bill, which received a very discreet second reading on the day the Vicar of Downing Street's aide was arrested, proposes to exempt Parliament from the Freedom of Information Act because "new government guidance to 100,000 public authorities on releasing MPs' letters is complex and unclear". David Maclean does not understand the instructions, therefore nobody must listen to the stereo. The empty suit believes that "many members on both sides of the house would welcome" Maclean's bill, "not because they opposed the general operation of the Freedom of Information Act, but because of the special circumstances of parliament", which does, after all, claim to be nothing more than an institution of representative government. Under such circumstances, what possible objection could there be to those very special people in the House of Commons and the House of Donors veiling their modest talents and their slightly less modest budgets?