I agree with you that the access to information in the UK is minimal compared to what it should be.

I object, however, to Labour’s removal of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office as an institution. If you researched it, you’d find that the Queen usually operates with more dispassionate concern for the public good as a whole than politicians do.

Most of us are pretty sick and tired by Labour’s ‘reform’ and ‘modernisation’ bollocks. This OPSI creation is yet another tawdry example of it. It’ll hobble this country for years to come, and would annoy many of those who see the benefit of the sovereign being a symbol of our sovereignty, not to be toyed with by fly-by-nights in Downing Street.

It’s the politicians who won’t reform the old HMSO system that have designed this new OPSI system as a way of accruing more power unto themselves. I know that the monarch would not have resisted opening up the information on the Crown Copyright system; it’s the Kings and Queens of Downing Street who are resisting such a thing, and in supporting the abolishment of the sovereign system of Crown Copyright you’re playing into the hands of the politicians. It’s a shame you can’t see through what they’ve done.

Your comments don’t address, either, the QUALITY of the information. You just assert that use and reuse should be made easier. That is only half of the story: what is the point in making it easier to use and reuse national information if that information is bollocks? Holding the information under Crown Copyright is correct. What was – and is – incorrect is the politicians’ refusal to acknowledge that the Crown holds it on the nation’s behalf, not on the government’s behalf.

In short, focus on the government’s abuse of power, not the Crown issue (it’s a red herring).