Keep MPs’ expenses in the public domain
Monday, January 19, 2009Comment, or trackback from your own site.
A very short but very important message: please write to your MP urging them to vote against changing the law to make MPs expenses exempt from the Freedom of Information act. It’s important!
Write to your MP now, and make sure your hard-earned pennies aren’t squandered on Swan pizzas, ice sculptures and private helter skelters. Or at least make sure that if that happens, you know about it and can act accordingly.
Please join the Facebook group too.
Update: phew. Panic over.
Why not lend your web skills to building a web tool to help our right honourable friends disclose their expenses more easily? Then their secretaries can put them online once a month rather than constantly fielding requests for information from individual people. What’s more we can all check up on the publicly funded pizzas and helter skelters at the click of a mouse. Surely a great way of restoring some much needed public trust in those in power? That’s all assuming the change in law doesn’t go through…
EdJanuary 20th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
It’s a good idea – already implemented by They Work For You. My MP details page on their site includes her expenses since she’s had her seat: Lynne Featherstone. Not sure how that information gets there, but it’s easily accessible.
SimonJanuary 20th, 2009 at 2:06 pm