Ming Campbell has stepped up the pressure over the bill to exempt Parliament from the freedom of information rules by both launching an online petition and also urging people to lobby members of the House of Lords (where the bill goes next for debate).
Details at the special campaign site, www.ourcampaign.org.uk/foi
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If Ming Campbell is so opposed to it, why couldn’t he be bothered to show up on Friday to vote against it in Parliament?
Typical LibDem hypocracy.
Hmm, couldn’t we have backed the 10 downing st petition, just this once?
Not only did he not turn up but most of the rest of his crew. Where were the London members of parliament who had no excuse?
Anyway, the Tories will vote against in the Lords so it is a waste of time for the Lib Dems.
Rob – the problem with the Downing Street petition website is that you don’t get the chance to follow up to people who sign it and say “thanks, and here’s now something else you can do to help the campaign” (assuming they’ve given permission to be contacted again of course).
With No.10 the only person who gets to do that is Tony Blair telling us how wonderful his policies really are 🙂
Looking at the figures, Ming’s petition has more signatures than the three separate petitions on the Number 10 site by several times over.
Our Tory MP seems a little rattled by the flak he’s been getting on this: http://www.stephenhammondmp.com/hys.asp
He voted on the closure motion but then didn’t vote either way on the third reading – but he’s going around telling everyone he didn’t support the bill
Oooh he’s already started deleting comments. The one where he accused someone of misleading people has gone in the last hour . . .
I have left a reply of my own for Mr. Hammond – also available here should it fail to make it through to publication for any reason… 😉