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Post by peakman on Jan 16, 2009 13:55:30 GMT
I know it's a throwback to the old place but look at todays news re our democratic members of Parliament and their relationship with that concept.  The "Freedom of information Act" passed by Parliament. We now find there are exceptions as to who are subject to this act,...on the grounds that some people are more equal than others, take a wild guess as to who these people are.  |
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Post by yord on Jan 16, 2009 14:55:23 GMT
youve seen nowt yet
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Post by peakman on Jan 16, 2009 15:15:21 GMT
I concur
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Post by Foxy1 on Jan 17, 2009 14:09:54 GMT
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Post by peakman on Jan 17, 2009 15:47:00 GMT
Well the tax-man got Al Capone, so maybe there is still hope. |
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Post by Woolf on Jan 21, 2009 10:27:22 GMT
Gordon Brown is to order Labour MPs to back a controversial plan to exempt details of MPs' expenses from the Freedom of Information Act.
The prime minister will impose a three-line whip on the vote, raising the prospect of a backbench rebellion.
Ministers say disclosing details has to be affordable but critics accuse them of a plot to conceal MPs' expenses.
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said the move was "outrageous". Lib Dem and Tory MPs will be ordered to vote against it.
The move follows a long-running Freedom of Information case in which campaigners sought to get details of MPs' expenses, which totalled £87.6m in 2006-7, published.
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Post by Woolf on Jan 21, 2009 13:19:23 GMT
The government has shelved plans to hold a vote on controversial proposals to restrict the amount of information published about MP expenses.
No 10 had insisted it would hold a vote on exempting expenses information from Freedom of Information laws and that Labour MPs would be forced to back it.
But the government has now decided to abandon the vote after opposition parties said they would not support it.
The High Court said last year receipts for MPs expenses should be published.
Given that he was facing both opposition parties and a back bench revolt, he did not dare risk losing a vote.
The rest of the cabinet would have smelt the blood in the water.
Bugger
Earlier, Mr Brown blamed the Conservatives for what he said was a breakdown of a consensus over the way forward.
"We thought we had agreement on the FOI Act as part of this wider package," he told MPs.
Translation: I though I could get away with this without the other parties votes.
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Post by peakman on Jan 22, 2009 10:22:41 GMT
Yep this is the man who only the other day was lambasting the banks for not being open and honest about the size of their loses. Lets hope the papers now dig into this, unless of course M.P. "expresses" come under the "Official secretes act". In which case we shall just have to wait until a C.D. with all the details is found upstairs on a No: 4 bus. |
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Post by Woolf on Jan 22, 2009 13:00:58 GMT
There is no chance of a CD with this kind of data being left on a No.4 Bus.
No high ranking member of the Civil Service would be seen dead on a bus.
The 17:10 to Reading is much more likely.
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