tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27939552.post2416827870316384727..comments2023-11-02T07:54:22.317+00:00Comments on Unenlightened Commentary.: Green Leaks.Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02263275229285861236noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27939552.post-25834422683735232982008-12-04T16:30:00.000+00:002008-12-04T16:30:00.000+00:00The favourite word the government uses - apart, of...The favourite word the government uses - apart, of course, from "fairness" - is "proportionality". As you say, government could not carry on if <I>everything</I> was leaked. In the current episode the government, as has become its habit, completely lost sight of any proportionality if what it intended was genuinely to stop leaking by civil servants.<BR/><BR/>However, only the desperately naive - or just the desperate - believe that this was the sole or even main aim of the government here. The aim was clearly to put the frighteners on MPs (particularly opposition MPs) not to push any enquiries too far. That the government was aided in this endeavour by having a clown as Speaker and an ignoramus as his assistant was a bonus. The previous speaker (Betty Boothroyd) and her assistants would have called the police bluff sharpish and would have made an almighty fuss besides.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com