Day 2: Open Up gets Fry-ed
We’re ecstatic with the support we’ve received so far for the Open Primaries petition. Thanks to Stephen Fry (and to everyone else as well) for tweeting about the campaign – and for nearly breaking the website! Hopefully, we’re now back to normal service, so if you weren’t able to sign the petition first thing this morning because of traffic levels, please have another go.
Later today, the Open Up blog is revealing its first guest blogger, campaigner and journalist Heather Brooke. Heather was the woman responsible for kicking off the expenses scandal way back in 2004 when she filed what she thought would be a routine Freedom of Information request to see how MPs were spending taxpayers’ money. You can read more about Heather’s campaigning work here.
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1Just A Joe
wrote on 20 October 2009 at 12:27
Stephen Fry wants to take you down because he’s all for MPs ripping off the British public through their expenses claims
2Christopher Gough
wrote on 20 October 2009 at 12:43
This is such a great initiative. The stranglehold of major party selection would be released if we adopted primaries in each constituency.
All power to your elbow. Let’s see Mr Brown try to ignore your petition. I can see some interesting ‘trending’ on Twitter in the coming months!
3Becky
wrote on 20 October 2009 at 15:35
@Christopher – thanks for the support! Please spread the word!
4Ivor Manning
wrote on 5 November 2009 at 23:43
In view of current failure of the commons to take war seriously. I suggest that on the death of each tenth soldier killed, a parliamentary seat shall be drawn by lot for an immediate by election.
Lip service and political correctness are no longer enough.
I might prefer restoring the accountability to Tower Hill but that might be considered too extreme. I do believe the thought of seat sacrifice for each ten lives would win the attention of the House