WE WIN! I object to MPs concealing their expenses
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WE WIN! I object to MPs concealing their expenses
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Now let your MP know what you expect of the new Speaker: http://tinyurl.com/phzhzp
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UPDATE: The old Speaker is gone, and you have a chance to tell your own MP what sort of new Speaker you expect them to vote for: http://tinyurl.com/phzhzp

UPDATE: The vote to conceal MPs' expenses has been cancelled, we won!

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On the 16th of May 2008 the High Court ruled that MPs’ expenses must be published under the Freedom of Information Act.

This Thursday, 22nd Jan 2009, MPs were planing to vote to change the law to keep their expenses secret after all, just before publication was due and after spending nearly a million pounds and seven months compiling the data.

We asked people to join this group and write to their MP, and they did by the thousand. On Wednesday the 21st the vote was withdrawn and the threat receded, for the time being.

Read more about what happened here:
http://www.mysociety.org/2009/01/21/blimey-it-looks-like-the-internets-won/

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