On the 16th of May 2008 the High Court ruled that MPs’ expenses must be published under the Freedom of Information Act.
This Thursday(21st January), MPs’ are voting to change the law to keep their expenses secret after all, just before publication was due and after spending nearly a million of your pounds and seven months compiling the data.
Your MP may not even know about this proposal (it was sneaked out under the Heathrow runway announcement). Please take a few minutes to alert them to this attack on Parliamentary transparency and ask them to vote against the measure.
The outcome of this vote will be prominently displayed on every MP’s page until after the next General Election.
See some previous information here.
What an cheating and underhand way these MPs’ have behaved.
What can you do?
* Write to your MP to protest:
http://foiorder2009.writetothem.com/
* Join this Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=50061011231
* Blog about it, call a local newspaper – our unfinished site
http://news.mysociety.org/ might help; text, email, and instant
message your friends to let them know that about this campaign.
Read more detail about mySociety’s thoughts on this issue.
http://www.mysociety.org/2009/01/17/6-days-to-stop-mps-concealing-their-expenses/
Beasley's Place 