Thursday 26 November 2009

PrimeMinister's Questions

PMQ

The PM falls into a booby-trap, confirming that the Iraq investigation will not be censored, excepting as required for public security — only to have a Labour-issued protocol dictating the censorship of the report, and retaining rights to censor individual points, waved in his face by Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg.

In the same session, Gordon Brown implies that we should adopt some parliamentary reforms that are 'absolutely vital to a modern participatory democracy'.

Well, great; but that'd require letting us know what's going on so that we can make informed decisions: i.e., you can't censor facts merely because they reflect poorly on you; in fact, knowing the facts that reflect poorly on the government are important in any democracy, participatory or otherwize.

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