Comments on: Victory is mine!

By: tony

tony — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:56:59 +0000

well done!!
however i am very sceptical as to whether you will have achieved anything as this sneaky bunch of pocket fillers will vote themselves a big pay rise to compensate!!

By: Rose Gibson

Rose Gibson — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:44:32 +0000

Thank you for making our democracy better.

This is one of those things that looks so obviously right in retrospect, but most of us didn’t realise it until someone else fought for it.

By: JPFife

JPFife — Mon, 19 May 2008 09:29:12 +0000

Well done Heather. When it’s about us giving information for ID cards they keep repeating the mantra “those who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear” but when it comes to accounting for money they (supposedly) have already spent and are claiming back they run to the courts screaming injustice. If they have nothing to hide they have nothing to fear. … The only problem being that they all have something to hide.

By: John L Bell

John L Bell — Sun, 18 May 2008 07:35:34 +0000

Well done, Heather.
Thanks to you and your team we have taken a step away from parliamentary dictatorship and one towards parliamentary democracy!

By: Philip Thomas

Philip Thomas — Sat, 17 May 2008 15:46:19 +0000

Superbly done. You’ve made the country a more open place for us all. I’m so pleased for you and for us.

By: Sam Leith

Sam Leith — Sat, 17 May 2008 15:26:47 +0000

Good going, Heather. A total triumph for which claps and hulloos and congratulations. More power to your elbow. And nose.
S

By: Ben Bamber

Ben Bamber — Sat, 17 May 2008 11:42:02 +0000

Absolutely wonderful. I have been unsuccessfully corresponding with my MP, [Alistair Burt], for nearly a year now to try ascertain the same information. Thanks to you, he is shortly going to have to give details of his expenses! You have done UK PLC a truly enormous service!!
This is groundbreaking stuff, I’d like to take you to dinner!

By: gordon taylor

gordon taylor — Sat, 17 May 2008 10:56:47 +0000

Now let us have the names of all those who have resisted information being made public along with the claims they have made

By: Liz Brown

Liz Brown — Sat, 17 May 2008 10:22:15 +0000

Hooray- very well done indeed! and who can we expect to lead the way into exposing the expenses of MEPs? Also who will now force those MP’s with European links (Nick Clegg springs to mind) to show their expenses/pensions

By: Bedd Gelert

Bedd Gelert — Sat, 17 May 2008 08:38:15 +0000

Will you marry me ?

I’m not smart, good looking or rich, but I’m available !

Wonderful stuff, Heather…

By: Bob Pitman

Bob Pitman — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:59:25 +0000

Congratulations Heather, a great victory over a hostile and secretive system.
We met last week whilst doing some filming for the BBC Politics show and you have consistently been named as the interviewee that we were most impressed by. On Thursday this week we met Nick Harvey MP and tried to explain why we want every last penny of expenses accounted for and published. I have been shocked at the degree of hostility MPs show towards a system thats fully accountable and transparent. We were even told that the Westminster officials didn’t want MPs receipting every penny as it would constitute too much work which why the £25 base was agreed!! But the real fear seems to be that the press will hound them over things they think are innocuous, but if that fear meant that they begin to self-police expenses spending I would count that as a huge step towards winning back some public trust in MP’s.
Anyway congratulations and thanks!

By: Mrs Kara

Mrs Kara — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:13:30 +0000

Go Girl! Make the politicians jump through our hoops for a change. Goodness only knows we’re always expected to jump through theirs. Turn the screws and let them know what it feels like to be on the end of an intrusive, brutal juggernaut after your very soul and no intention of stopping until it’s flattened the very will to live let alone fight out of you. It’s about time they knew what it feels like to be clobbered by the blunt instrument of justice. I loved your analogy that if you’ve nothing to hide you’ve nothing to fear. Well done Heather. Well done.

By: Mike Law

Mike Law — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:12:28 +0000

Excellent Heather, this a truly historic moment.

By: DD

DD — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:12:04 +0000

Congratulations, and more so, thank you.

By: The Essex Boys

The Essex Boys — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:16:07 +0000

Just briefly…very well done and thank you, Heather. You and your team have much to be proud of and this is a genuine landmark for all of us who believe in opening up the system and making it work for US . As Darth Vader famously said…”Now I am the Master!” Let’s hope so.

By: Nellie Vos

Nellie Vos — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:31:17 +0000

This is wonderful news – congratulations. You have asserted the principle of accountability that politicians so frequently forget and ignore, hopefully it won’t take so much effort to assert it again in the future.

By: Scottish Politics

Scottish Politics — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:54:11 +0000

Heather this is a wonderful result, well done!

By: Paul Callow

Paul Callow — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:49:45 +0000

A great result, well done Heather for all your work, its high time those people that we elect recognize that they work for US and its all of us that pay thier salaries !!

By: Donald Mallett

Donald Mallett — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:46:34 +0000

I find it almost unbelieveable that there are still judges left in this God-forsaken country who are not in the government’s pocket. That, and nothing else is the good news.

By: Guido Fawkes

Guido Fawkes — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:16:02 +0000

All Hail Heather!

You have won a victory which hopefully serves to remind politicians that they are public servants accountable to the people. Day in day out.