Followers of the Brexit saga will recognise the following as the establishment's way of blocking something that it does not want and does not agree with - stifling stories, hiding its mistakes through methods ranging from leaked stories to the press, prevarication, using procedures to delay and stifle initiatives, utilising precedents established hundreds of years ago, making things seem more difficult than they really are, embargoes on documents and records, use of "Project Fear" and even destroying records.
They were equally familiar to those who for sixteen years battled to win pardons for 306 soldiers executed in WW1.