{"id":199694,"date":"2007-07-05T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/05\/obstruction-of-public-access-uk-edition\/"},"modified":"2007-07-05T06:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T11:51:00","slug":"obstruction-of-public-access-uk-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/05\/obstruction-of-public-access-uk-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Obstruction of Public Access: UK Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is really about covering up pork, and outrageous uses of expense accounts by MPs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/07\/03\/govt_opposes_spending_website\/\">UK gov fights public spending website<\/a><br \/>By Kablenet<br \/>Published Tuesday 3rd July 2007 09:27 GMT<\/p>\n<p>The government is obstructing a bill aimed at establishing a new website for information on public sector spending.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, which originated in the House of Lords, is now being led by Conservative MP David Gauke. It would require the Treasury to create a government expenditure website, as well as giving the government the power to extend it to other public sector bodies, but the government believes it would cost too much.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is really about covering up pork, and outrageous uses of expense accounts by MPs. UK gov fights public spending websiteBy KablenetPublished Tuesday 3rd July 2007 09:27 GMT The government is obstructing a bill aimed at establishing a new website for information on public sector spending. The bill, which originated in the House of Lords, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1009,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-government","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}