Marek is glad we stuck it to the man: http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/email/tom-griffin/2009/01/21/brown-backs-down-over-mps-expenses

Link: Marek is glad we stuck it to the man: http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/email/tom-griffin/2009/01/21/brown-backs-down-over-mps-expenses

As reported by the BBC:

Ministers have shelved plans to exempt MPs’ expenses details from the Freedom of Information Act, after the Tories and Lib Dems said they would fight it.

MySociety wrote:

This is a huge victory not just for transparency, it’s a bellwether for a change in the way politics works. There’s no such thing as a good day to bury bad news any more, the Internet has seen to that.

The final comment in the piece on OpenDemocracy suggests:

It seems likely that the Government was hoping to sneak the proposals through in the week of Obama’s inauguration. If so, it’s appropriate that they have been thwarted by methods that the Obama campaign helped pioneer.