Quite.
Openness? Transparency? These are only steps to accountability. It is all about accountability. The Tories don't want to be held to account so they delete their history. They want to do as they please without opposition - like they did with the NHS risk register.
Not only that, the Tories then stopped counting things and publishing that information so that we cannot see the effects of the NHS privatisation on an ongoing basis e.g. the Tories stopped counting the number of nursing vacancies and currently claim it to be around 3-4,000. The Royal College of Nursing used the Freedom of Information Act to find out the truth and found that 20,000 nurses have been lost through the Tory changes to the NHS.
The Tory Justice and Secruity Act was introduced in the summer and will allow secret courts to be held where,
We have also seen the withdrawal of legal aid in all but a handful of cases and a vast increase in the cost of bringing claims to court - essentially precluding huge swathes of the poor and vulnerable from access to a fair trial. A lot of these cases are against the government. Another example of the removal of accountability.
The introduction of the Gagging Law currently going through parliament is a further example of the attempts to squash those opposing the government. "What's that? Have a different point of view? Highlighting our deficiencies? Showing us up? Holding us to account - we'll have none of that, here you go, here's a law making all that nonsense a criminal offence."
Perhaps the biggest example of the Tory attitude towards openness, transparency and ultimately, accountability is demonstrated in their smashing of the Unions - organisations formed to give large groups of people a voice. Oppose us - we will destroy you.
It's all about accountability.
