New Labour, the police and leaks to a shadow minister
Posted by michael on November 30, 2008
I don’t know how most people view the Damian Green being arrested becaause he received leaked information from a government department.
I cannot help being very concerned that this whole situation shows that New Labour are happy to withold information from the public on the grounds of protecting their reputation!
The government is saying that they did not know that police were brought into the case. But that indicates to me that they are not in control of the civil servents who appear to be able to act as they choose to! The government should have known, they should have been required to give permission to involve the police.
How much more information is still hidden from us? This is not secret or sensitive data we are talking about.
It is standard information we would normally expect to see in the public domain, but New Labour are witholding it because it puts them in a bad light, maybe even going so far as to show New Labour as being unable to achieve their stated goals and ambitions.
Surely this is no different to a minister telling the public a pack of lies about how well their policies are being implemented; except that thay are hiding the truth by not telling anything!
I feel that this whole episode is very important from the perspective of a democratice government which has a duty to the people of the UK.
faith said
I do not understand why this happened. There have been so many stories in the past where the press have printed so called secret documents that have been leaked and there has been no action, so why was Damien Green arrested?