Quote Originally Posted by blue matt View Post
Yes of course we did, and we all agree that was wrong, but while it could easily happen again ? ? ( though the day and age of them finding it easy to abuse power must have gone, as the people are alot more connected ) it might not and imho if we take this incident alone and treat it as a one-off, then the government has done the right thing, which is follow the opinion of the mass's ( for once )


Quote Originally Posted by lardy View Post


Social media and the rise of independent investigatiive journalists have done a lot for getting stories out there, yes - but there's no way we're at full transparency.


Quote Originally Posted by lardy View Post
I know what you meant and there's no way that the days of governments getting away with abuse of power are long gone.
The Key words in my post are finding it easy, and i stand by that, we are all far to connected for that, so when the public find out, questions are asked, the ferry company fiasco was mentioned, questions were asked and the government back-tracked on it ( was it last week ? ? ? ) a prime example of not finding it easy