Gus O'Donnell the outgoing Cabinet Secretary, pictured above, has said that Cabinet discussions should be kept from the public for their own good. "The law pertaining to freedom of information should be changed to prevent Cabinet minutes from being made public in the future," he told our reporter. "Some of the things Minister's say are a bloody embarassment to be honest and if the electorate knew what these bozos actually think of them we'd never have a government again. Worse than that it would quickly be revealed that most of them are morons who shouldn't be organizing a garden fete let along a country. I haven't "fudged" any minutes to hide all this - honest - but the temptation to do so is overwhelming given the idiotic ideas they discuss at times. Outright falsehood has a valuable place in politics - without it no one would vote Tory again - but, as far as Cabinet meetings are concerned at the moment, its absolutely crucial. While ministers know the minutes might be published in the future the amount of "nudge, nudge, wink, wink" that goes on is staggering. I can't remember the number of times the PM has had to tell ministers to stop laughing in case passer-by's in the street hear them. Then there's the use of codewords. Do you know what they call unemployment? The Final Solution."
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