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You can contact a member or parliament and express yourself.
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 8:17 pm
by southeast-isher
Re: You can contact a member or parliament and express yourself.
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:57 pm
by seasidegirl
Thanks for this it's a great resource. I've written a message so will be interesting to see if I get a reply.
I wrote to my MP a few years ago about something in the news that concerned me. I remember having a devil of a job to find the MP's website, then sending of an email. I didn't expect to hear anything but he investigated my query with the foreign office (well he said he did) and sent me a nice letter on H of Parliament notepaper by snail mail to my house.
Perhaps I'm too easily impressed.
Anyway good to keep on at 'em for whatever reason. This time I filled him in on employee rights, or lack of the, in some cases in the current economic climate.
Cheers.
Re: You can contact a member or parliament and express yourself.
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:32 pm
by vicki
Many thanks for sharing the link. I think we should all start speaking up for ourselves a bit more!
Re: You can contact a member or parliament and express yourself.
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:10 pm
by southeast-isher
It works! I've had 2 replies - one from an Earl and an MP.
Re: You can contact a member or parliament and express yourself.
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:16 am
by Mrs Moustoir
Don't forget your MP will probably hold regular "surgeries" in their constituencies and this is an opportunity for you to put your point across face to face.
I know this as I met my then MP in Oxfordshire. A preschool I volunteered at used to provide the refreshments for the village's regular farmers market and often, the MP used to hold his surgery on the same day. We made his tea too and talked about SureStart and childcare issues when he had a free 10 minutes or so while his constituency agent fended off 10 preschool children who wanted to pinch the MP's biscuits!
Re: You can contact a member or parliament and express yourself.
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:02 pm
by John Headstrong
there are many sites developed by the same people
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/ find what your MP has voted for
http://www.fixmystreet.com/ get potholes and other broken stuff fixed in your area
http://www.pledgebank.com/ do things, but only if other help
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/ freedom if information requests made easy
blimey, they are doing loads check
http://www.mysociety.org/projects/