Comments on: It’s our data, make it accessible http://heatherbrooke.org/2009/article-its-our-data/ Heather Brooke is an award-winning writer, journalist and activist Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:17:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ian W http://heatherbrooke.org/2009/article-its-our-data/comment-page-1/#comment-2233 Ian W Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:21:31 +0000 http://www.yrtk.org/?p=886#comment-2233 I think John is right on the button; I don't know why fraud charges haven't even been given any airing to date. In the meantime, I smiled at an alleged voting form for the new speaker of the house. See: http://www.tomharris.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Ballot-paper.pdf I think John is right on the button; I don’t know why fraud charges haven’t even been given any airing to date.

In the meantime, I smiled at an alleged voting form for the new speaker of the house. See: http://www.tomharris.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Ballot-paper.pdf

]]> By: John Bennison http://heatherbrooke.org/2009/article-its-our-data/comment-page-1/#comment-2232 John Bennison Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:09:17 +0000 http://www.yrtk.org/?p=886#comment-2232 Perhaps we should create a new verb. To 'Terredact'; To destroy something via censorship. In this case Parliament. We could call MPs 'Terredactists' Perhaps we should create a new verb.

To ‘Terredact’; To destroy something via censorship.

In this case Parliament.

We could call MPs ‘Terredactists’

]]> By: John L Bell http://heatherbrooke.org/2009/article-its-our-data/comment-page-1/#comment-2231 John L Bell Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:55:30 +0000 http://www.yrtk.org/?p=886#comment-2231 To you and I this is 'data'. In a court of law this is 'evidence'. In terms of The Fraud Act 2006 what has been happening in parliament is fraud - a criminal act! Therefore concealing this information is not 'redacting' data, it is CONCEALING EVIDENCE of fraud and is subject to Sections 2-4 of The Fraud Act 2006 which came into force in January 2007. I have said this before, and will continue saying it; INVESTIGATE ALL MPs irrespective of party or seniority or position held! PROSECUTE ALL MPs who have made fraudulent claims irrespective of party or seniority or position held! SENTENCE ALL MPs, officials and family members who have taken part in making fraudulent claims irrespective of party or seniority or position held! To you and I this is ‘data’.

In a court of law this is ‘evidence’. In terms of The Fraud Act 2006 what has been happening in parliament is fraud – a criminal act!

Therefore concealing this information is not ‘redacting’ data, it is CONCEALING EVIDENCE of fraud and is subject to Sections 2-4 of The Fraud Act 2006 which came into force in January 2007.

I have said this before, and will continue saying it;

INVESTIGATE ALL MPs irrespective of party or seniority or position held!

PROSECUTE ALL MPs who have made fraudulent claims irrespective of party or seniority or position held!

SENTENCE ALL MPs, officials and family members who have taken part in making fraudulent claims irrespective of party or seniority or position held!

]]> By: Gregory Williams http://heatherbrooke.org/2009/article-its-our-data/comment-page-1/#comment-2230 Gregory Williams Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:26:21 +0000 http://www.yrtk.org/?p=886#comment-2230 The Government seems to have lost the plot. What the developers of 36Degrees and MySociety are trying to enforce is that Government serves us. The government are not elected for any other reason than to: regulate society for the good of all; legislate for the protection of all; serve society for the elevation of all; educate society for the stimulation of all. Somewhere along the last twenty years weve lost the 'why' - in all the privatisation of public services the focus has become the PROFIT found in the delivery of public services - not the services, or the value or the quality - and where does this profit come from? YOUR taxes! This Strategy is bleeding the value from our public services into the pensions of the board members and shareholders of these companies supplying our public services. The data discussed here is another symptom of the perspective of this government - a feudal imperious establishment that simply does not comprehend the concepts embodied in the phrase 'To Serve' The Government seems to have lost the plot. What the developers of 36Degrees and MySociety are trying to enforce is that Government serves us. The government are not elected for any other reason than to: regulate society for the good of all; legislate for the protection of all; serve society for the elevation of all; educate society for the stimulation of all. Somewhere along the last twenty years weve lost the ‘why’ – in all the privatisation of public services the focus has become the PROFIT found in the delivery of public services – not the services, or the value or the quality – and where does this profit come from? YOUR taxes! This Strategy is bleeding the value from our public services into the pensions of the board members and shareholders of these companies supplying our public services. The data discussed here is another symptom of the perspective of this government – a feudal imperious establishment that simply does not comprehend the concepts embodied in the phrase ‘To Serve’

]]> By: Flemingcrag http://heatherbrooke.org/2009/article-its-our-data/comment-page-1/#comment-2229 Flemingcrag Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:42:06 +0000 http://www.yrtk.org/?p=886#comment-2229 Either the haphazard and e l o n g a t e d way the politicians have released their blacked out expenses is a deliberate attempt at obfuscation or this is the best the many, many expensive computer programmes sponsored by this Governmemt can deliver. Whichever it is, it stands as the most damning evidence of what has probably been the worst period of government in this proud Countrys' long history. Either the haphazard and e l o n g a t e d way the politicians have released their blacked out expenses is a deliberate attempt at obfuscation or this is the best the many, many expensive computer programmes sponsored by this Governmemt can deliver.

Whichever it is, it stands as the most damning evidence of what has probably been the worst period of government in this proud Countrys’ long history.

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