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Thursday, May 15, 2014

Blocking bad news

According to the Telegraph, the Better Together lead spokesperson in Scotland, Alistair Darling has accused the SNP of undermining democracy over claims it was preventing Holyrood's committees from publishing criticism of Alex Salmond's government.

He refers to reports that Nationalists are using their parliamentary majority to "shut down" legitimate debate over Government policy raised serious questions about accountability.

Mr. Datling should come to Wales, where Labour are doing exactly the same thing, not least in preventing Ann Clwyd, one of their own MPs, coming before the Health and Social Services Committee to give evidence about how badly the Labour Government are running the NHS here.
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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous12:46 PM

    Yep - totally agree, shameful shut-down of proper debate and fact checking.

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