foi

News about the UK government back-pedalling on the FoI Order is watched by British ex-pats across the pond, such as dominichamon:

Net-based pressure forces UK government to cancel plans to make MPs’ expenses secret - Boing Boing

The words ‘hope’ and ‘change’ are being bandied around rather a lot at the moment, but it’s stories like this that actually deserve those epithets.

As reported by the BBC:

Ministers have shelved plans to exempt MPs’ expenses details from the Freedom of Information Act, after the Tories and Lib Dems said they would fight it.

It’s been covered in numerous places and several causes on whose mailing lists I lurk:

We are writing to ask you to write to or email  your MP as a matter of urgency opposing the government’s attempt to remove MPs’ and Peers’ expenses from the scope of the Freedom of Information Act.