Guardian Appeals Against Gove Veto
The Guardian newspaper has asked the Court of Appeal to overturn High Court endorsement of a government information freedom veto. The veto was intended to hide Windsor family interference in democratic government and prolong monarchy in Britain.
Attorney-General Dominic Grieve vetoed a freedom of information tribunal decision that letters from Charles Windsor to government ministers should be published. In the letters Windsor used his status in Britain’s semi-feudal system to persuade ministers to put his wishes on public policy issues before the wishes of the people of Britain.
Grieve admitted to the earlier High Court hearing that “This risk will arise if, through these letters, the Prince of Wales was viewed by others as disagreeing with government policy. Any such perception would be seriously damaging to his role as future monarch because if he forfeits his position of political neutrality as heir to the throne he cannot easily recover it when he is king,”
This remarkable admission that the government puts the privileges of the Windsor family and the feudal institutions it heads above the rights of the people was accepted by the High Court as justification for secrecy.
Counsel for the Guardian told the appeal court that Grieve’s use of the veto had been unreasonable.
The newspaper has fought fought for nine years for the right of the people to know how the Windsors use their extraordinary privileges to undermine democratic government.