"... a lot of local and national government departments are quite happy to just sit on embarrassing information, or otherwise stall requests, until Joe Public gives up and goes away. Indeed, for years there have been whisperings that central government wants to restrict the scope of FoI, supposedly on the grounds that complying with the act is too much of a burden."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12...handy_guid e/

And you thought the bane of the Met Office was Thatcherism?
So did I. Heartening to find it's bipartisan though. Jonesing on politics so to speak. Or is it the other way round?