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Royal College of Psychiatrists joins calls for airbrushed photographs to be labelled
From a party news release ahead of Jo Swinson and Lynne Featherstone meeting with representatives of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA):
Commenting on today’s report from the Royal College of Psychiatrists calling for airbrushed images to be ‘kitemarked’, Liberal Democrat MP, Jo Swinson said:
“The Royal College of Psychiatrists makes it crystal clear that airbrushing plays a [...]
How is Parliament doing at catching up with the existence of YouTube?
We’ve covered before the campaign by Jo Swinson and others to change the antiquated Parliamentary rules which ban MPs (and in theory other people too) from placing footage from Parliament on YouTube.
Here’s the latest from Jo Swinson about the campaign (via an update sent to fans of the campaign on Facebook):
In my last update I [...]
ASA bans ‘misleading’ Twiggy advert
From a party press release:
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled against an Olay advert containing a heavily airbrushed image of the model Twiggy on the grounds that it was misleading following a campaign led by the Liberal Democrats.
The Liberal Democrats have called for airbrushed ads to be clearly labelled, and for airbrushing to be [...]
Real Women policy paper debate: live blog #ldconf
With my technological fingers crossed, here we go…
[Several people in the hall are also tweeting through the debate. You can keep up with their and other conference tweets through this search link. The policy paper and motion are available to read here. And yes, it is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, hence this.]
The votes:
Amendment [...]
Parliament edges towards allowing footage to be put on YouTube
Good news from Section 10 of the minutes of a recent meeting of the Commons Administration Committee: slowly, cautiously the House of Commons is moving towards allowing Parliamentary footage to be put up on YouTube.
Credit to Jo Swinson, who has been campaigning steadily on the issue and kept it going through the slow wheels of [...]
Guardian mostly apologises to Jo Swinson
From today’s Corrections and Clarifications column in the Guardian:
A further correction to our graphic surveying the expenses of certain MPs: In the category Cheapest claims, we stated without qualification that cosmetics were included in receipts submitted by Jo Swinson, Liberal Democrat MP for East Dunbartonshire (23 May, page 6). Jo Swinson has denied claiming for [...]
First reactions to the Speaker’s statement on #MPexpenses
Two Liberal Democrat MPs have twittered their views on Michael Martin’s statement:
@joswinson resisting even debating the no confidence motion is the wrong path to take, this problem won’t just go away #MPexpenses
@lfeatherstone Speaker does not get it Another mtg is not the answer #MPexpenses
What’s your view? The comments thread awaits… (and by all means [...]
