It isn’t perfect but it is all we have – and MPs and civil servants want to take it away from us:

Sir Jeremy Heywood, Britain’s top civil servant, who wants to limit our Freedom of Information Act, though his plans have been greeted with incredulity and derision even within government.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3316327/Sir-Cover-plot-kill-right-know-expose-public-sector-fat-cats-impossible-without-Freedom-Information-Act-No-wonder-Whitehall-s-cynical-mandarin-wants-rid-it.html