Heather Brooke petition on MPs' expenses

Journalist Heather Brooke, the freedom of information campaigner who won a High Court victory over the Parliamentary authorities to force the release of MPs’ expenses details, is launching a petition with the TaxPayers’ Alliance calling for the publication of all receipts behind MPs' expenses claims.
It states: “We the people call on the House of Commons authorities to immediately publish the full receipts behind MPs’ expense claims – including the crucial second home addresses. The House has had four years to prepare for freedom of information and there is no excuse for the obstruction and continued delays that have prevented the people seeing directly how our MPs spend taxpayers’ money.
"We also call on the Commons authorities to commit to publishing these full receipts in future on a quarterly basis, excluding from publication only that material allowed by the High Court ruling of May 16th 2008 (i.e.credit card and bank account numbers).There should be an independent person allowed access to the full record to ensure no MPs are deleting information to avoid criticism or embarrassment.”
Heather Brooke says: "We cannot sit back and let MPs or politicians dictate the terms of this debate. They’ve proven time and again they can’t be trusted to do what is in the best interests of Parliament as a whole. Certain people in Parliament are content to stubbornly resist change and are willing to bring the whole institution of parliament into disrepute simply to maintain the lifestyle ‘to which they’ve become accustomed’.
"The only power the people do have is to band together and shame the powerful into doing what’s right. So let’s do that. The more names on this petition the greater the chance we can start dictating a new relationship between politicians and the people."