Try saying that 10 times while pissed as a hippie at a whale de-beaching.

Now we just need to find out what was said when BAA and BA lobbied parliament over the mess that is the Heathrow expansion.

"We wouldn't get away with half this shit if the public knew what we were up to." ... By Steve

Posted Wednesday 28th May 2008 15:46 GMT

QuITe so, Steve. And the danger they face is that better informed speculation will sink them without a trace being either left or necessary. Secrecy never did anything other than keep dirty little secrets, hidden to rot away at the heart of any issue.

Agreed, those misbegotten fools think they own the country and it's people. It's time we showed them where to kiss our boots when bowing before their public, the masters on this gig.

+1 !

"Thinking space" LOL

Unfortunately, they can always fall back on public apathy...

No Taxation without representation,

The Tree of Liberty must be from time to time drenched in the blood of patriots and tyrants... it is it's natural manure !

LIBERTY OR DEATH !

I prefer "Cake or Death?" as a choice...

"It also recognised that is in the public interest for the more sensitive information to be withheld".

So they basically reserve the right to withheld anything they see fit...

"We'd still get away with this shit, if the public knew, because what are they going to do about it? We just didn't want to have to put up with the noise they make when they whine."

Icon for devil's advocate.

Does this mean we can expect similar disclosures of the closed, unminuted meetings of the Common Purpose organisation?

This is the government run "charity" of which £100m taxpayer money has been spent on subtley brainwashing the young to believe the EU is a good thing whilst simultaneously supressing any public objection. Both Gordon Brown and David Cameron are members, and Tony Blair is the current head.

If there's a Common Purpose graduate at El Reg, then this post will be censored too... in the public interest of course.