Comments on: Political reform: what to make of Cameron? http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2009/05/political-reform-what-to-make-of.htm Liberal Democrat MP for Hornsey and Wood Green Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:18:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: beppe http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2009/05/political-reform-what-to-make-of.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1971 beppe Tue, 26 May 2009 12:22:51 +0000 http://localhost/wp28/?p=2226#comment-1971 What you say here is really relevant. I'm (still) not a (UK) voter, nonetheless I find this analysis really appropriate. <br />I fear that David Cameron will be turning back as a 'nice face for the old conservatives'.<br />Thanks a lot for this blog post!<br /><br />Giuseppe Sollazzo<br />Alexandra Palace What you say here is really relevant. I'm (still) not a (UK) voter, nonetheless I find this analysis really appropriate.
I fear that David Cameron will be turning back as a 'nice face for the old conservatives'.
Thanks a lot for this blog post!

Giuseppe Sollazzo
Alexandra Palace

]]> By: Mark Pack http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2009/05/political-reform-what-to-make-of.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1970 Mark Pack Tue, 26 May 2009 10:50:51 +0000 http://localhost/wp28/?p=2226#comment-1970 One problem I think Andrew is that a lot of stuff is provided to MPs on paper rather than in electronic form, which makes the job an awful lot harder. One problem I think Andrew is that a lot of stuff is provided to MPs on paper rather than in electronic form, which makes the job an awful lot harder.

]]> By: Andrew Suffield http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2009/05/political-reform-what-to-make-of.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1969 Andrew Suffield Tue, 26 May 2009 10:38:21 +0000 http://localhost/wp28/?p=2226#comment-1969 <i>I remember after leading on my first Bill in Parliament for the Liberal Democrats I went to the Labour Whips office to persuade them to use tracking changes so that we could see the Bill and its alterations all in the same place. You know track changes - the sort of thing the rest of the world has been using for years and years and years. But not Parliament. Instead - something changes, and you get given a block of replacement text without changes marked up. They seem incapable of breaking out of their straight jacket of history and moving to modern online information.</i>As an aside, it would be quite straightforward to automatically generate a summary of changes from the replacement text versions (and produce arbitrarily marked up versions, however you want them). We've had the tools since the 1980s. Just because they won't do it for you doesn't mean it can't be done. I always assumed MPs had people doing that sort of thing for them. I remember after leading on my first Bill in Parliament for the Liberal Democrats I went to the Labour Whips office to persuade them to use tracking changes so that we could see the Bill and its alterations all in the same place. You know track changes - the sort of thing the rest of the world has been using for years and years and years. But not Parliament. Instead - something changes, and you get given a block of replacement text without changes marked up. They seem incapable of breaking out of their straight jacket of history and moving to modern online information.As an aside, it would be quite straightforward to automatically generate a summary of changes from the replacement text versions (and produce arbitrarily marked up versions, however you want them). We've had the tools since the 1980s. Just because they won't do it for you doesn't mean it can't be done. I always assumed MPs had people doing that sort of thing for them.

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