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Friday, February 02, 2007

Thatcher and Maurice Frankel ??? Out-takes, behind the Freedom of Information Act

Amazingly, Thatcher was one of the first to push for the Freedom of Information Act as a Private Members Bill. Maurice Frankel shows us the files detailing behind the scenes bickering, fears, chicanery, negotiations and horse-trading that goes on. Also, the low-down on the current proposed gov't ammendments to the Act etc. Very rough and ready edit.

10 comments:

  1. Hilarious to think the boot was on the other foot for Thatcher. Also nice to see nothing's changed with the double-dealing etc. in the corridors.

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  2. they wage bets on bringing casinos

    my bet is those gamblers will spend more money/ thus raising more revenues then the miserable costs that stop the flow of freedom of information

    birmingham beheading- muslims- reid's home from home office- timing is off the essence and bliars time is running out, we can bet on that.

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  3. Freedom of Information cost £35 million quid so they want to cap it ???? Errr, the Millenium Dome, the Olympics, ID Cards .....

    Maybe there should be a referendum on which we'd prefer to be paying for.. Now that's something I'd bet on.

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  4. This man really should be given an honour. Dedicated his whole life etc. For Chrissakes, when you compare him to the mob Bliar etc. put up last time you can see what a ridiculous level of cronyism the gov't endorses.

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  5. "dedications what we need"

    jim'll fix it

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  6. margaret thatcher freedom of info act??

    in the same fxxking sentence

    wow

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  7. maggie's a libertarian dontcha know

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  8. more a librarian these days

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  9. To me, the question of capping, either time or number of requests, is secondary to the question of request. To me, the biggest concern that still surrounds FOI is that we have to ask for information. By definition, information isn't free if you have to be aware of it in order to ask for it.

    The biggest problem with all our democracies is that nobody really understands what democracy is. By defnition, sovereignty should reside in the common man rather than his elected government, which should function purely as an executor of the common man's will. Under this definition, we have a right not only to the information, but to knowing that the information is there. As such, I would suggest that the ideal would be for ALL information generated by government to be made available via the internet, public archives, etc.

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  10. Dr Strangeglove said...
    "Freedom of Information cost £35 million quid so they want to cap it ???? Errr, the Millenium Dome, the Olympics, ID Cards .....

    Maybe there should be a referendum on which we'd prefer to be paying for.. Now that's something I'd bet on."

    IMPOSTERRRR !!!!!!

    And you, You Mr Elves... You are clearly of a radical nature, incapable of pragmatic, logical neural processes.

    I have friends.

    They will visit you.

    They will make you understand better your synapses, nervous system, musculature.

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