Sign up to campaign against secrecy bill, local MPs urged
June 4, 2007 1:14 PM
Westminster Liberal Democrat campaigners have urged local MPs Mark Field and Karen Buck to sign a new parliamentary motion opposing moves to exempt MPs from freedom of information laws.
Westminster Liberal Democrat spokesperson Mark Blackburn has contacted both MPs encouraging them to join the growing campaign against the Bill, to help persuade the House of Lords to reject the Bill when they discuss it later this month.
Commenting, Mark said, "I spelt it out to the MPs that this has to be one of the most outrageous proposals ever put before Parliament. MPs and Lords are the very people who introduced this important legislation to give people a right to know what public bodies and public servants, paid from the public purse, are doing and saying, and how they are spending public money. The idea that they might pass a new law to specifically exempt themselves from its effects will strike most people as utter hypocrisy."
He continued: "It is vital that this rotten bill is thrown out. Neither Mark Field nor Karen Buck voted on this bill. That was a shame. They do now have a chance to redeem themselves however. If a large number of MPs back this motion, tabled by LibDem MP Simon Hughes, it will help to persuade the Lords to kill off this self-serving and hypocritical bill.
"Karen Buck has already replied to say that she will look at the motion to see if she could sign it. I hope she does."
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