Imagine what an utter farce the Hutton and Butler enquiries would have been without old archived emails and so on. Admittedly, the results were a farce, but at least they illustrated the inner working of "government".

And as a matter of fact, in most large businesses that I have worked in, no email is deleted if it pertains to work. Everyone keeps EVERYTHING - and archives it when it gets to a certain age; because we all know that there will come a time when someone tries to drop us in the shit unless we’ve kept that email that says "I already told you about that a year ago" or whatever.

So even that reasoning is rubbish, as far as I’m concerned. No, there is one purpose and one purpose only to this - to get rid of as much unwanted information as possible before we can all ask for it.

As an afterthought, I can almost guarantee that when the Freedom of Info act comes into force and the public is queueing up to get their hands on various facts; the amount of information which SHOULD have been kept but has been "inadvertently destroyed" will be staggering - I can predict in advance that there will be another rigged equiry to cover it.

Now we know where all the Andersen Accounting guys went when they lots their jobs.