Tuesday, November 22, 2005

HearFromYourMP.com - Sign up to hear from your MP about local issues, and to discuss them with other constituents

HearFromYourMP.com - Sign up to hear from your MP about local issues, and to discuss them with other constituents: "“So, the voting is over. The politicians vanish to Westminster, and everything carries on as before, right?”

Wrong. Between elections the internet is really starting to challenge politics as usual. As part of this change, we'd like to put you in touch with your new MP. Not for a specific purpose, but in order to hear what they're working on, to debate their thoughts in a safe, friendly environment, and generally to build better, more useful relationships between constituents and their MPs.

If you enter your details, we'll add you to a queue of other people in your constituency. When enough have signed up, your MP will get sent an email. It'll say “20 of your constituents would like to hear what you're up to – hit reply to let them know”. If they don't reply, nothing will happen, until they get an email which says there are now 100 people; 200 people; 500 people – until it is nonsensical not to reply and start talking.

When your MP replies, it won't be one-way spam, and it won't be an inbox-filling free-for-all. Instead, each email will have a link at the bottom, which will take you straight to a forum where the first post will contain the MP's email. There'll be no tiresome login – you can just start talking about what they've said. Safe, easy and democratic."

A good idea - sign up please!

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