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| author | francis <francis> | 2009-01-21 13:55:26 +0000 |
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| committer | francis <francis> | 2009-01-21 13:55:26 +0000 |
| commit | 9446cf117d7ced67e23362541f2b7daa06419e8e (patch) | |
| tree | 76450eb36cb3d52029d2dde09c96ad0b5611840a | |
| parent | 019035ad4c701efd2775bae617c6b0b2c40e6871 (diff) | |
Victory!
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diff --git a/app/views/layouts/default.rhtml b/app/views/layouts/default.rhtml index dfeb133f5..b8574e35a 100644 --- a/app/views/layouts/default.rhtml +++ b/app/views/layouts/default.rhtml @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ document.write('<style type="text/css">.jshide { display: none; }<'+'/style>'); $(function(){ - if (!$.cookie('seen_foi')) { + if (!$.cookie('seen_foi2')) { window.setTimeout(function(){ $('#everypage').slideDown('slow'); }, 1000); @@ -47,39 +47,35 @@ <body> <div id="everypage" class="jshide"> - <p style="float:right"><a href="#top" onclick="$.cookie('seen_foi', 1, { expires: 7, path: '/' }); $('#everypage').hide('slow'); return false;">Close</a></p> - <h2>DENIED</h2> - <p>Sorry to interrupt, but <strong>democracy needs your help</strong>! + <p style="float:right"><a href="#top" onclick="$.cookie('seen_foi2', 1, { expires: 7, path: '/' }); $('#everypage').hide('slow'); return false;">Close</a></p> + <h2>Blimey. It looks like the Internets won – <small>a message from WhatDoTheyKnow</small></h2> + <p>Sorry to interrupt, but we thought you’d like to know that <strong>you won</strong>! <p>On the 16th of May 2008 the High Court ruled that MPs’ expenses must be published under the Freedom of Information Act. - <p>This Thursday, <strong>MPs are voting to change the law to keep their expenses secret</strong> after all, + <p>Tomorrow, MPs <strong>were</strong> going to vote on changing the law to keep their expenses secret after all, just before publication was due and after spending nearly a million of your pounds and seven months compiling the data. - <p>Your MP <strong>may not even know about this proposal</strong> (it was sneaked out under - the Heathrow runway announcement). Please take a few minutes to alert - them to this attack on Parliamentary transparency and ask them to vote - against the measure. + <p>However, after a <strong>tremendous response</strong> from you, with over 7,000 members + on our Facebook group, 4,000 messages sent to MPs, help from + <a href="http://twitter.com/stephenfry/statuses/1136046150">Stephen Fry</a>, and a helpful + <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200809/ldselect/ldmerit/16/1603.htm">4th Report of the House of Lords + Merits of Statutory Instruments Committee</a>, + it appears that the vote has been cancelled – + <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jan/21/mps-expenses">Guardian</a>, + <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5559704.ece">Times</a>, + <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7842402.stm">BBC</a>. - <p>The outcome of this vote will be <strong>prominently displayed on every MP’s page</strong> until after the next General Election. + <p>As President Obama said in his inauguration speech: <em>“And + those of us who manage the public’s dollars will be held to account – to + spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day – - <h3>What can you do?</h3> + because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their + government.”</em></p> - <form action="http://foiorder2009.writetothem.com/" method="get"> - <!-- <input type="hidden" name="a" value="WMC"> --> - <ul> - <li><strong>Write to your MP</strong> to protest. Enter your postcode to do so online: <input type="text" name="pc" value="" size="8"> - <input type="submit" value="Go"> - <li><strong>Join</strong> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=50061011231">this Facebook group</a>. - - <li>Blog about it, call a local newspaper (<a href="http://news.mysociety.org/">find one</a>), text, email, and instant - message your friends to let them know that about this campaign. - </ul> - </form> - - <p>Read <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/2009/01/17/6-days-to-stop-mps-concealing-their-expenses/">more detail about mySociety’s thoughts on this issue</a>. - <p style="align: right"><a href="#top" onclick="$.cookie('seen_foi', 1, { expires: 7, path: '/' }); $('#everypage').hide('slow'); return false;">Close</a></p> + <p>Read <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/2009/01/21/blimey-it-looks-like-the-internets-won/">our victory blog post</a>. :-) + <p align="right"><a href="#top" onclick="$.cookie('seen_foi2', 1, { expires: 7, path: '/' }); $('#everypage').hide('slow'); return false;">Close</a></p> </div> <div id="banner"> |