David Steel, once Liberal party leader and now presiding officer in the Scottish 'parliament' is VERY unhappy at the amount of secrecy that wraps the running of Scotland in shrouds.

This is done because if EVERY issue were in the open the Scots, even the majority of stupid ones who voted Labour would see that LONDON calls the shots, Westminster calls the shots and that their beloved parliament was just an expensive sham.

In the last full parliamentary year for which figures are available (May 1999 to May 2000), of 363 committee meetings, 94 were partly in private and 12 were wholly in private.

Remember how Blair STOPPED the SNP from accessing documents when England STOLE sections of Scotlands sea, and how figures which showed Scotland SUBSIDISES Westminsters coffers were deemed 'not in the public interest'.

WE ARE A COLONY - VOTE FOR THE SNP. VOTE FOR INDEPENDENCE OR FOREVER STAY SECOND RATE, SUBDUED AND PUT BLUNTLY, SHAT ON BY WESTMINSTER AND THE SOUTHERN ENGLISH THEY REPRESENT.