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October 27, 2004
Tracking your MP I
If you want to monitor your MP - surely a good idea! - ‘They Work For You’ offer an excellent service. Their website is at:
If you log in and give your postcode, you will see the name of your MP, his or her voting record and performance data (number of spoken and written questions, attendance at Westminster, responsiveness to constituents etc.)
For example my MP is Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North and Leith/Labour). From ‘They Work For You’ I learn that he has spoken 97 times in the last year (177th out of 658 MPs), asked 59 written questions (209th out of 658 MPs), attended 79% of votes (125th out of 658 MPs), replies to 79% of messages sent via FaxYourMP.com within 14 days (182nd out of 589 MPs) and significantly ‘occasionally rebels against his party’.
Most useful of all is the special newsfeed about the activities of your MP. If you subscribe to the feed with a news reader, you will be notified every time your MP is active in parliament. Not only that, you can also comment on what your MP has said or written - just as you can on this blog.
At the moment - as far as I know - no SNP actvists are using this splendid resource, but with a general election coming up it is essential reading!
Posted by Simon Holledge at October 27, 2004 01:08 PM
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impeachblair.org is down again, I was thinking about winding the conspiracy lot up as I checked it just minutes after the BBC page went up.
Posted by: Mick at November 24, 2004 07:37 AM
Yes the site is indeed down. I'll write about this in a new entry.
Posted by: Simon Holledge at November 24, 2004 11:32 AM