Knowledge is Power
Knowing how to contact your Westminster MP is a seemingly trivial thing – but it’s amazing how easy this is to do – when you have access to their e-mail addresses.
No more shuffling along to MPs surgeries at awkward times of the day or night – often in dreadful weather.
Oh no, once you realise how quick and easy it is to drop an e-mail to your local ‘honourable’ member – there’s no looking back!
And the formula’s always the same – it’s the MP’s surname followed by the first initial. Let’s start at the top with the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, whose e-mail address (as a local Fife MP), is:
browng@parliament.uk
Likewise with the Speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin - but you’d better hurry because he’s on his way out of the House of Commons after the MPs expenses fiasco - and reportedly off to the House of Lords (where expenses are also said to be incredibly generous):
martinm@parliament.uk
And so it goes on for the remaining 644 ‘honourable’ members – here are a couple that might come in handy for readers in South Lanarkshire, for example:
Adam Ingram, MP for East Kilbride: ingrama@parliament.uk
Tommy McAvoy, MP for Rutherglen: mcavoyt@parliament.uk
If you don’t know the name of your local MP, the details can be found on the House of Commons web site at: http://www.parliament.uk/
MPs and Equal Pay
Apart from overseeing their own Alice in Wonderland expenses – see post dated 10 May 2009 - MPs’ are also responsible for employment legislation and the legislative framework surrounding equal pay.
So, if you want to put across a point of view or ask what your MP is doing about equal pay - it’s easy as easy as can be.
So don’t be shy!
No more shuffling along to MPs surgeries at awkward times of the day or night – often in dreadful weather.
Oh no, once you realise how quick and easy it is to drop an e-mail to your local ‘honourable’ member – there’s no looking back!
And the formula’s always the same – it’s the MP’s surname followed by the first initial. Let’s start at the top with the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, whose e-mail address (as a local Fife MP), is:
browng@parliament.uk
Likewise with the Speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin - but you’d better hurry because he’s on his way out of the House of Commons after the MPs expenses fiasco - and reportedly off to the House of Lords (where expenses are also said to be incredibly generous):
martinm@parliament.uk
And so it goes on for the remaining 644 ‘honourable’ members – here are a couple that might come in handy for readers in South Lanarkshire, for example:
Adam Ingram, MP for East Kilbride: ingrama@parliament.uk
Tommy McAvoy, MP for Rutherglen: mcavoyt@parliament.uk
If you don’t know the name of your local MP, the details can be found on the House of Commons web site at: http://www.parliament.uk/
MPs and Equal Pay
Apart from overseeing their own Alice in Wonderland expenses – see post dated 10 May 2009 - MPs’ are also responsible for employment legislation and the legislative framework surrounding equal pay.
So, if you want to put across a point of view or ask what your MP is doing about equal pay - it’s easy as easy as can be.
So don’t be shy!
