Free our Bills!
Thought I’d share another (vaguely) political whatsit with you today.
Theyworkforyou.com is a great resource for engaging with your local MP (or MEP, MSP etc…), seeing how they vote and how they compare with other MPs.
They’ve got a really interesting campaign on at the moment: Free our Bills!
Basically the idea is that UK parliament don’t publish the bills on which they vote in any sort of electronic format. This makes any sort of meaningful distribution absolutely impossible, which is ridiculous in this age of the internet. In addition to making distribution easier, theyworkforyou also have loads of other greta ideas for uses for the data - think email alerts and annotated explanations for a start!
If you need further selling on the idea, let me just say ‘XML’ and ‘open source’. Oh, and take a look at the site to see other interesting stuff.
Go sign the petition,
Tom x
