Chancellor Gordon Brown has been ordered to reveal the secret forecasts he was given about the impact of his pensions "grab" in 1997.
Oh yes...
Critics have claimed that Mr Brown wiped billions of pounds off the value of pension funds when he scrapped the tax credit measure.Well, not to put too fine a point on it, he has condemned thousands of careful people to an old age in relative poverty as so many pension funds have been closed.
Apparently
...the Treasury turned down the [original] request, saying officials' advice to ministers was exempt from freedom of information laws.But the FOI Commissioner
says the Treasury's concerns are outweighed by the need for transparency in the decision making process.Reading on, it is clear why the Treasury is concerned:
If the papers are published, the public will be able to compare the Treasury's private forecasts with what it said publicly.Ooops, could this imply the public is not getting the truth, the whole truth, or anything like the truth?
[File under: Pensions]
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