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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
"....as well as providing, for free, the results you got."
The point is that it's not "for free" if it's tax payers money which funded it.
The "secret poll" isn't a "Secret poll". David Cameron has confirmed that it exists.
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Government advice is also not free if it's tax payers money that funded it. You have to be able to govern without every thought, question, advice or information you have access too being widely distributed amongst the public.
It's symptomatic of the Yes campaign's flailing, scattershot, approach to every perceived slight from the UK and Better Together that they pretend this is new or unfair. They're trigger-happy opportunists that value winning the issue of the day on Twitter than winning the war at large. I suspect it's cooler heads at the SNP and the Scottish Parliament that have stopped them pushing it. They don't want to open that can of worms because, it's almost certain, that they've paid for polling and advice over Independence that they don't want in the public domain. Questions that might suggest they're open to nuclear weapons at Faslane, advice that might show the Currency Union isn't the massive bonanza of common-sense they have claim it is, maybe advice on if they could join the EU as quickly as they've claimed.
They probably have many polls commissioned by this stage and it's possible the one that triggered the Nats outrage didn't exist but Cameron in referring to the many others which may, or may not, be the one the random person 'revealed' in a newspaper letter. It's also 'secret' because they won't reveal the results in the same way Government advice is 'secret'.
It's secret in the same way the Scottish Government paid £20,000 to make sure that no one knew that the 'secret' EU legal advice they received didn't actually exist:
http://www.scotsman.com/news/politic...ttle-1-3133692. They paid £20,000 to keep it a secret that the secret they had didn't exist so their sudden outrage over a poll is a bit rich.