Keeping an eye on what our hired help is doing.....UK, Scotland, N.Ireland, Wales
MAKE magazine has just reported that we in the US of A will soon be getting into the act that countries like the UK, Scotland, N.Ireland, & Wales have been for awhile now.
At TheyWorkForYou.com (from across the pond) you can:
Find out more about your MP/ MSPs/ MLAs
View lists of all MPs, Lords, MSPs, or MLAs.
Sign up to be emailed when something relevant to you happens in Parliament
Read and comment on:
The link is here...clicky - for UK
I can not wait to see how we handle the new initiative to Open Government on our side....
One can now get emails from the US Govmnt on what is happening on health care etc. go here to sign up for updates AND one can also go directly to the site they maintain for those that do not wish to sign up, but still want to know: and THAT can be found HERE.
At TheyWorkForYou.com (from across the pond) you can:
Find out more about your MP/ MSPs/ MLAs
View lists of all MPs, Lords, MSPs, or MLAs.
Sign up to be emailed when something relevant to you happens in Parliament
Read and comment on:
- Thursday's Commons debates:
- Thursday's Westminster Hall debates:
- Thursday's Written Answers:
- Tuesday's Northern Ireland Assembly debates:
The link is here...clicky - for UK
I can not wait to see how we handle the new initiative to Open Government on our side....
Major Update !!!
One can now get emails from the US Govmnt on what is happening on health care etc. go here to sign up for updates AND one can also go directly to the site they maintain for those that do not wish to sign up, but still want to know: and THAT can be found HERE.
Discussions
9 years ago
The idea being that this is presently a UK thing, and we in the states are finally going to get an open government: remember, we pay these people, say they are technically ours BUT, if you can't open it, it isn't yours ! - Make
Reply 9 years ago
Have you got a US link for what this act?
also holding Government to account
L
Reply 9 years ago
. Does this help or did I misunderstand the question?
Reply 9 years ago
Links have been updated
Reply 9 years ago
That's a good link, thank you Nacho. The article in the newest Make, did not give a link that I could find, except the one for the UK.
Reply 9 years ago
And how they (MP's) are squirming these days.
Cashola
In brief - it's open season on the Cabinet et al after an establishment newspaper bought leaked documents revealing the extent of how MP's bend the rules over expenses.
Is the story being covered at all over on your side Goodhart? And how do the Representatives / Senators get renumerated?
Cheers,
Bosh
Reply 9 years ago
Covered? Well, there is THIS article in the Wall Street Journal...
Reply 9 years ago
Hi Goodhart did you receive my reply - seems to have been deleted?
Reply 9 years ago
The one just above my last post? Other then that, no, I didn't see it. sorry.
Reply 9 years ago
Yes that was the sort of thing L
9 years ago
so, is this good or bad?
Reply 9 years ago
Oh, this is a VERY good thing. We pay them, we should know what they are doing with OUR hard earned money. They must be accountable, and this administration seems to want that too....the last one did not.