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NonGeographicalMan

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Re: Email Your MP to help challenge 0870 !
Reply #15 - Dec 13^th, 2005 at 2:29am

Dave wrote on Dec 13^th, 2005 at 2:01am:

My MP is listed as not having an e-mail address here.

Call 020 7219 3000 Ask for the name of your MP's Parliamentary secretary. Send an email to the secretary using the format surnamex@parliament.uk Virually all Parliamentary secretaries have a working email address. Although perhaps not Sir Patrick Cormack who still lives in the day of the quill pen! Shocked

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DesG Newbie Offline Posts: 33	Re: Email Your MP to help challenge 0870 ! Reply #16 - Dec 15^th, 2005 at 1:02am Might also have been a good idea to add an option to the vote for "My MP has already signed" Not being familiar with EDM's do they need a minimum number of signatories before they are motioned? Cheers, Des.
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AJR Full Member Offline Posts: 107	Re: Email Your MP to help challenge 0870 ! Reply #17 - Dec 15^th, 2005 at 8:28am DesG wrote on Dec 15^th, 2005 at 1:02am: Might also have been a good idea to add an option to the vote for "My MP has already signed" Good idea. I've added this.
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Dave

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Re: Email Your MP to help challenge 0870 !
Reply #18 - Dec 15^th, 2005 at 4:15pm

AJR wrote on Dec 15^th, 2005 at 8:28am:

DesG wrote on Dec 15^th, 2005 at 1:02am:

Might also have been a good idea to add an option to the vote for "My MP has already signed"

Good idea. I've added this.

I voted that I had sent my MP an e-mail. At present you can only vote for one of the options. When my MP signs the EDM I would have to retract that vote and vote for EDM signed one. AFAIK you can't do that.

You could have it that you can vote for more than one, but that would mean people could vote for not sending an e-mail and sending one.

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AJR

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Re: Email Your MP to help challenge 0870 !
Reply #19 - Dec 16^th, 2005 at 6:00pm

Dave wrote on Dec 15^th, 2005 at 4:15pm:

I voted that I had sent my MP an e-mail. At present you can only vote for one of the options. When my MP signs the EDM I would have to retract that vote and vote for EDM signed one.

Ok, I've changed the setup again. Now you can retract your vote (for up to a year, I think!) Then you can vote again and this time you can vote for two options.

However, I've just realised that the option for "My MP has already signed" is not going to give you a number of MPs who have signed but instead the number of forum users who have an MP who has signed. So even if it said 100 it might only refer to one MP and the 100 users all live in the same constituency. I don't suppose this matters very much as you can always look at the EDM site and see how many MPs have signed. It had already gone up by two, last time I looked.

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trevord

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Re: Email Your MP to help challenge 0870 !
Reply #20 - Dec 21^st, 2005 at 12:26am

Dave wrote on Dec 12^th, 2005 at 11:55pm:

I sent an e-mail to my MP earlier on today and I'll post here when I get a response.

I sent a message to my MP (Francis Maude) using this method on 11 Dec and received a reply dated 13 Dec (received today 20 Dec):

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As a rule I rarely sign Early Day Motions. This is because there are many tabled every day and in parliamentary terms they have little or no effect. I have, however, taken this mater up with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and, as soon as I have a response, I will write to you again.
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NonGeographicalMan

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Re: Email Your MP to help challenge 0870 !
Reply #21 - Dec 21^st, 2005 at 8:49am

trevord wrote on Dec 21^st, 2005 at 12:26am:

As a rule I rarely sign Early Day Motions. This is because there are many tabled every day and in parliamentary terms they have little or no effect. I have, however, taken this mater up with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and, as soon as I have a response, I will write to you again.

What a pompous ass Mr Maude is. The EDM's that get 300 or 400 signatures nearly always achieve something in terms of moving the debate along.

If they didn't achieve anything then why would so many other MPs so regularly sign them????.................................... Roll Eyes

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AJR

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Reply #22 - Dec 23^rd, 2005 at 4:08pm

Had a letter from my MP a couple of days ago in response to my message via the writetothem website.

The letter says: "I have read your letter carefully and reviewed EDM 622 and will be signing it.

"I hope that the Government will take notice of this expression of public feeling and end the use of these expensive numbers by the Government itself."

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Dave Global Moderator Offline Posts: 9,902 Yorkshire Gender:	Re: Email Your MP to help challenge 0870 ! Reply #23 - Dec 28^th, 2005 at 6:50pm I've yet to get a reply from my MP and/or for him to sign. I received a confirmation that it had been received by his office. Today I received an email from Write to Them asking if my MP has responded. Looks like I'll be saying no, although maybe the Christmas break has left him with a backlog.
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AJR Full Member Offline Posts: 107	Re: Email Your MP to help challenge 0870 ! Reply #24 - Jan 10^th, 2006 at 11:26pm The number of MPs who have signed has now reached 49. From memory, I think that's four more than when this thread was begun. Maybe more readers could click on the links at the top of the thread to email their own MPs.
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Smasher Senior Member Offline Posts: 346 UK	Re: Email Your MP to help challenge 0870 ! Reply #25 - Jan 11^th, 2006 at 11:03am I sent this to my MP before Christmas and am still waiting for a response and he hasn't signed up yet. I notice that George Galloway has signed it though
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Dave Global Moderator Offline Posts: 9,902 Yorkshire Gender:	Re: Email Your MP to help challenge 0870 ! Reply #26 - Jan 11^th, 2006 at 3:00pm Smasher wrote on Jan 11^th, 2006 at 11:03am: I sent this to my MP before Christmas and am still waiting for a response and he hasn't signed up yet. Mine too.
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Shiggaddi Senior Member Offline Posts: 411 Saltash, Cornwall Gender:	Re: Email Your MP to help challenge 0870 ! Reply #27 - Jan 12^th, 2006 at 3:06pm Smasher wrote on Jan 11^th, 2006 at 11:03am: I sent this to my MP before Christmas and am still waiting for a response and he hasn't signed up yet. I notice that George Galloway has signed it though I think he should mention it to his fellow big brother housemates!!
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AJR Full Member Offline Posts: 107	Re: Email Your MP to help challenge 0870 ! Reply #28 - Jan 31^st, 2006 at 9:04am 53 MPs have now signed the motion, up from 45 when gdh82 started this thread. The increase is close to the number of people (nine) who say in the poll that they have emailed their MP. So perhaps the emails are having an effect.
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trevord

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Re: Email Your MP to help challenge 0870 !
Reply #29 - Jan 31^st, 2006 at 11:07am

AJR wrote on Jan 31^st, 2006 at 9:04am:

53 MPs have now signed the motion, up from 45 when gdh82 started this thread. The increase is close to the number of people (nine) who say in the poll that they have emailed their MP. So perhaps the emails are having an effect.

And allowing for my MP saying he wouldn't sign it, Smiley

that equates to the number who emailed their MP.

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