2009/2/24 Owen Blacker <[email protected]> > To be fair to our elected representatives (sic), I think it very much > depends on the representative in question. As we've seen from HFYMP and as > is evident on Twitter, for example, some MPs are quite enthusiastic about > engaging with their constituents (and the politically-engaged in general), > whereas others *really* suck at it. >
I agree. Like many members of the public I don't get to talk to many MPs or do so very often, so my sample is too small to use to extrapolate. I suspect my MP (if I met her) might actually listen to me and I hear positive things about others. > > I don'think this is anything new to anyone (pticly anyone engaged enough to > be on this list), it's merely that some people (right, imho) believe that > our elected representatives should be held to a higher standard. > Is there a constructive way we can encourage/push MPs to listening better? I take the point (made by someone else) that their powers are often limited (and that's another problem) but MPs might find listening to MOTPs useful. -- Francis Davey
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