{"id":2524,"date":"2015-03-06T14:37:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T14:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2023-04-25T20:07:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T20:07:26","slug":"huppert-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/huppert-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Huppert&#8217;s parliamentary record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been considering Julian Huppert&#8217;s record as an MP and have come across the following resources to help me understand it. I have of course seen him speak at the last three OrgCON conferences,&nbsp; the recent Digital Question time and in the Westminster Hall debate on Snowden &amp; GCHQ, which I reviewed in <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.davelevy.info\/2013\/11\/01\/who-watches-the-watchmen\/\">my blog article, &#8220;Who watches the Watchmen<\/a>?&#8221;.&nbsp;I also <a title=\"a blog article called &quot;Grandstanding&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.davelevy.info\/2014\/12\/18\/grandstanding\/\">talk about him here, in an article called &#8220;Grandstanding&#8221;<\/a>. where I examine the growing trivialisation of his position dated from his support of Drip. It seems he&#8217;s been bugging me for a while, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.davelevy.info\/2012\/09\/02\/digital-freedom-broad-campaigns-and-the-liberal-democrats\/\">here&#8217;s more of my ranting<\/a>. In this last piece I suggest he <acronym title=\"the speed at which many\/most LibDems in broad campaigns seek to appropriate the cause to support for themselves puts neutral and partisan allies off\">puts his party before the cause <\/acronym>, and it now would seem that he now puts himself before his party.&nbsp; We should note that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicwhip.org.uk\/\">the &#8220;Public Whip&#8221;<\/a> documents his acts of rebellion to the ConDem government at 3.5%. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here&#8217;s some new stuff,<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20161025014135\/http:\/\/i4j.uk\/julian-huppert-and-it-in-the-uk.html\">http:\/\/i4j.uk\/julian-huppert-and-it-in-the-uk.html<\/a>, a so called independent blog\/site supporting him because he&#8217;s good on IT. Not so much and I hope his agent knows about it in order to declare it a gift in kind.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridgelibdems.org.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.cambridgelibdems.org.uk\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisrand.com\/\">http:\/\/www.chrisrand.com\/<\/a>, the author of i4j<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150401054732\/http:\/\/www.cambridge-news.co.uk\/did-Cambridge-MP-Julian-Huppert-fare-BBC-s\/story-23039574-detail\/story.html\">http:\/\/www.cambridge-news.co.uk\/did-Cambridge-MP-Julian-Huppert-fare-BBC-s\/story-23039574-detail\/story.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>http:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/mp\/24892\/julian_huppert\/cambridge\/votes<\/li>\n<li>http:\/\/www.publicwhip.org.uk\/mp.php?id=uk.org.publicwhip\/member\/40142<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The gagging act?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transparency_of_Lobbying,_Non-party_Campaigning_and_Trade_Union_Administration_Bill<\/li>\n<li>http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/2014\/4\/contents\/enacted<\/li>\n<li>http:\/\/www.carolinelucas.com\/latest\/sinister-lobbying-bill-would-gag-campaigning-voices<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.davelevy.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Huppert-and-Clegg-resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The last time Huppert made a pledge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been considering Julian Huppert&#8217;s record as an MP and have come across the following resources to help me understand it. I have of course seen him speak at the last three OrgCON conferences,&nbsp; the recent Digital Question time and in the Westminster Hall debate on Snowden &amp; GCHQ, which I reviewed in my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[140],"tags":[840,555,1194,839,141],"class_list":["post-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-cambridge","tag-digital-economy","tag-digital-liberty","tag-julian-huppert","tag-politics-2"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/libdems-h250-tr.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7892,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions\/7892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}