Many people I am sure have their own standard about where a government passes that fulcrum into totalitarianism. There are lots of markers where this could be reasonably argued. For me, it is where a government hides information from the public for fear that the public would object to, or attempt to alter public policy. I accept that in war time, some things may be kept secret. But what is the excuse in domestic policy such as this?
From the Daily Mail:
- MPs have called for an inquiry into the suppression of council house information
- Last year the Government acknowledged that nearly 800,000 public-owned houses are occupied by foreigners
PUBLISHED: 00:49 GMT, 3 January 2013 | UPDATED: 07:55 GMT, 3 January 2013
Councils are trying to cover up the number of taxpayer-subsidised homes they are handing to foreigners, it was claimed yesterday.
Local authorities have stopped giving figures for how many houses and flats they have given to foreign citizens amid rising worries over the impacts of immigration, a report said.
Councils in London, where one in five publicly-financed homes are already known to be occupied by foreigners, are among those no longer supplying the figures.
Now MPs have called for an inquiry into the suppression of information on who gets council and housing association homes.
Labour’s Frank Field and Tory Nicholas Soames said in a statement on behalf of the cross-party Balanced Migration group: ‘This is a huge issue for many people.
‘The Government must now launch a full inquiry into what is going on in the allocation of social housing in London.’
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