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Maurice Neill "Upholding our right to accountability" Newsletter (UK) (18 May 2012).
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The public pay for and elect the government and it is only by the people’s will that those in public office hold power. Public servants’ primary responsibility is to serve the people and we have a right to know what they are doing in our name and with our money. Public accountability does not end the day after an election.

— Heather Brooke

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The public pay for and elect the government and it is only by the people’s will that those in public office hold power. Public servants’ primary responsibility is to serve the people and we have a right to know what they are doing in our name and with our money. Public accountability does not end the day after an election." in the context of "Maurice Neill "Upholding our right to accountability" Newsletter (UK) (18 May 2012)." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Heather Brooke

About Heather Brooke

Heather Rose Brooke (born 1970) is a British-American journalist and freedom of information campaigner. The author of Your Right to Know, The Silent State, Assange Agnosties and The Revolution Will Be Digitised, Brooke was a 2010 winner of the Washington Coalition for Open Government "Key Award". Also known as the pioneer who forced the British Parliament to answer to its own freedom of information laws.