#cashforcameron/#camdinewithme (it's trending!)

[fearmeforiampink]

Conservative Party co-treasurer Peter Cruddas offered access to the prime minister and chancellor for £250,000, the Sunday Times has alleged.

Edit: Further news: Tory co-treasurer Peter Cruddas set to quit over cash-for-access claim

Edit the Second: And there he goes

And now time for the blatant plug: Send a letter to Mark Harper, Political and Constitutional Reform Minister, who's in charge of the current (rather crap) proposals for a register of Lobbyists. Or if you're near Birmingham, go to the public meeting we've organised that he'll be at.

(Apologies for slightly spamming this; posted the thing about the public meeting, then suddenly stuff hits the news relating to it. Once again, I make an admission of interest, that I work for Unlock Democracy, and we're campaigning on this sort of stuff)

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[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

I love your scrupulous declarations of interest on these posts. :-) Have just been spreading the word about it myself on LJ, FB and Twitter. Here's hoping that this whole ugly saga helps to galvanise people to get behind Unlock Democracy's campaign.

[fearmeforiampink]

Thanks. Whilst it's bad that they're doing this stuff, I have to admit that the timing works quite well for our campaigns.

And yeah, on the declaration of interest thing… I'd post it if I weren't working for UD, but I can't guarantee I'd go into as much detail (probably due to not knowing as much in that situation). And whilst the link is made more tenuous due to me being membership officer, UD is the job that puts food on my plate, pays for my broadband bill.

That, and when demanding transparency, it makes sense to be transparent yourself.