Unaccountably Stupid
As we all know, because they've rammed it down our throats so often along with their wage suppression and corporation tax cuts, the Conservatives are the party of fiscal responsibility, aways protecting the public purse from spending on silly things like the public. Doubtless it was thanks to similar concerns that Her Majesty's Government has spent £40,000 in public money protecting the public from the knowledge of its ministers' activities. The Guardian still seems to hold to the old-fashioned idea that politicians represent the public rather than the Government's sponsoring corporations, and requested an account of how much time the Minister for the Northern Poorhouse was actually spending among the plebs, proles and demi-wogs on the wrong side of Watford. The request was first ignored past the legal deadline, then refused and finally, after twenty-six months, answered with the embarrassing facts, which Her Majesty's Government had known since a month into the affair would almost certainly have to come out eventually. It was, of course, a foolish and disgraceful waste of taxpayers' money and Government time if not Government talent; and it could all have been comfortably avoided if only the Freedom of Information Act, like Brussels, the law of England and the public, didn't keep on interfering with the democratic process.
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