Understanding Democracy's Victory - Knowing When You've Won

This is good news. No-one should demean it. Assuming good faith, which is all one can do, all the information will be out. How, whether in full, in full with redactions irrelevant to torture, or in summaries, will be be decided by three member panel, which will be agreed by Opposition and Govt. Each side nominates one member, and the two members pick a third? I'll be curious as to how the choice is made.

I would have preferred, ideally, to keep all decisions in MPs hands. But this keeps essential decisions in MPs hands: disclosure or non-disclosure of information. Panel is about the form, the MPs are about the function. Parliament has the power, reaffirmed

Any further Govt hijinks, claiming delays in finding documents, etc., will just provoke an election over this. If the Cons didn't want an election over this now, and they didn't - make no mistake, from the PMO's point of view (though not Con caucus), this is a complete surrender - then one wouldn't expect they'd want one later. CAPP & CAPP protests scared them, believe me.

The Cons can read about UK news as well as anyone. They see it percolating in Canada. All it takes is Liberal and NDP MPs to form a plurality in the House, as in 2006, and the Cons are done. Building your anti-coalition campaign on anti-separatist basis cuts both ways: and if the coalition commands a plurality in the House without Bloc support? Then Cons are done. And they know it. Better be good boys, for a while.