If you took place in the Wild Justice, Hen Harrier Action, RSPB e-action then I wonder whether you have had a response from your MP yet? I know that quite a few people haven’t yet, and that is pretty poor. I think there is a preponderance of Labour MPs in the non-repliers but that’s just my feeling on what I’ve been told as I don’t have perfect knowledge. If that number includes you then please consider giving your MP (MSP, AM/MS) a nudge please.
I haven’t heard that anyone has had a response, via their English MP, from DEFRA yet. I know I haven’t. It won’t be long before I’ll be asking my MP to check that DEFRA’s responses haven’t been lost in the post.
But I have seen quite a few of you who have had multiple communications to and from yur elected politicians on the subject of bird of prey perecution and/or burning of peatlands. May I say – good for you! There is no need to take any old nonsense from your elected politician – they work for you. If you think you’ve been told a load of rubbuish then do write back and say so. It will make a difference.
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Hi Mark
I contacted my MP by e-mail and letter. I haven’t had a reply to either.
Wellingborough. Conservative.
Sadly, nothing at all back from my Conservative MP, a new one after toppling a long standing Labour one.
Written (emails and letters) on various conservation/environmental issues and zilch! Managed a nominal telephone conversation (10 minutes maybe) when he explained that I needed to understand how Parliament worked and he would work out how best to approach contacting Ministers with my concerns etc.) nauseatingly patronising or what, but hey …. that’s politics these days? Even sent him a copy of “Inglorious” and hasn’t even had the courtesy to acknowledge that!
Nothing on this from my Tory MP. He did reply to a later email when I complained about the Tories desire to extend trespass laws and I have poked him on the e-action but so far just tumbleweed blowing down the High Street.
For some time now, whenever I write to my MP (Chi Onwurah, Lab) I get a reply from one of her ‘case-workers’, usually saying my letter has been forwarded to the relevant minister and that I will be contacted when a response is received (which usually happens in due course). Even when there is a question directly posed to the MP it is still the assistant who replies with something bland along the lines of “the Labour Party is opposed to cruelty to animals”.
I suppose I should be happy that my letters do always get A response but I feel a bit short-changed that the MP is apparently always too busy to even sign a letter drafted by someone else. At the end of the day Ms Onwurah is my representative, not her office staff. Does anyone else have this experience?
Jonathan – I think others do have that experience. I would write back and say ‘Thanks for forwarding but i did specifically ask for your views as my MP too, please’.
That’s what generally happened to me in the past, with occasional personal views offered. That an MP contacts a Minister ought to register with Ministers and that’s what we need in so many situations.
I’ve just phoned the constituency office of my ‘new’ MP to a hear message about it being closed due to Covid and staff working from home (left a message) and then phoned the Westminster office to remind them …. watch this space (but I’m not holding my breath for anything particularly useful coming back …. ever an agnostic though 😉
My MP, or one of his staff, have just sent me the same standard letter again in response to my response to that letter. I guess there are three options: an honest mistake; whoever is reading his emails didn’t bother to read my message and just dealt with it based on the topic; or someone is taking the proverbial.