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FoI Across The Pond

Submitted by maz on Thu, 01/22/2009 - 08:44

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.

Marek has sent a letter to his MP about the parliamentary Freedom of Information exemptions up for vote on Thursday.

Submitted by maz on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 17:39
Link: Marek has sent a letter to his MP about the parliamentary Freedom of Information exemptions up for vote on Thursday.

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.

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