https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/...y-polling/
This is one of the most bizarre stories I've ever read re a secretive Brit govt startled by an SNP challenge to reveal an old poll/study of public attitudes towards the status of the Union and initiated by Tommy Shepherd under a legitimate FOI request. This fascist Tory govt had been ordered twice by a court of law to reveal the concluding documents and had again refrained from doing so by another manufactured appeal which IMO should've been rejected by the court and said Brit govt ordered to reveal the docs. Now Gove and his cohorts employing a high profile QC to contest ever revealing this information??? They've spent a lotta money in legal costs to try and bypass a legitimate FOI request!! Tommy Shepherd currently setting up a people funder to finance and take on this latest attempt to avoid such a revelation. Also one must raise the logical question, "What is it that the Brit govt has to hide re this particular issue"???? It must be absolutely damning and negative towards the state of the Union, but the bigger issue is a precedent being attempted that a fascist Brit govt can "bodyswerve" any kinda legitimate FOI request that could embarrass them. In other words, they are never called to account over any political skulduggery or revelation of embarrassing info in their possession. What happened to open, democratic govt eh???
This is one of the most bizarre stories I've ever read re a secretive Brit govt startled by an SNP challenge to reveal an old poll/study of public attitudes towards the status of the Union and initiated by Tommy Shepherd under a legitimate FOI request. This fascist Tory govt had been ordered twice by a court of law to reveal the concluding documents and had again refrained from doing so by another manufactured appeal which IMO should've been rejected by the court and said Brit govt ordered to reveal the docs. Now Gove and his cohorts employing a high profile QC to contest ever revealing this information??? They've spent a lotta money in legal costs to try and bypass a legitimate FOI request!! Tommy Shepherd currently setting up a people funder to finance and take on this latest attempt to avoid such a revelation. Also one must raise the logical question, "What is it that the Brit govt has to hide re this particular issue"???? It must be absolutely damning and negative towards the state of the Union, but the bigger issue is a precedent being attempted that a fascist Brit govt can "bodyswerve" any kinda legitimate FOI request that could embarrass them. In other words, they are never called to account over any political skulduggery or revelation of embarrassing info in their possession. What happened to open, democratic govt eh???