Message from Andy Slaughter
Posted by Andrew Slaughter, MP for Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush, at 11:36, Thu 26 April 2007:
The webmaster for this site tells me that a number of people have attempted to contact me via this site. I am pleased to tell you that I have a website, www.andyslaughter.com , where you can see my views on many topics of concern to constituents, and sign up for my newsletter. If the topic you're interested in isn't covered on my site, or if you want to contact me directly about anything at all, I would be delighted to hear from you: write to slaughtera@parliament.uk
Yours,
Andy Slaughter
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Posted by Stephen Coltrane, 09:45, Fri 27 April 2007: (Is this post abusive?) #
First, you're not my MP any more, as I moved out of your constituency over a year ago.
Second, a blanket response to correspondents who will have used the HearFromYourMP site to raise issues of concern is a bit like saying, "I couldn't be bothered to read your message, would you mind sending it again?"
Posted by slaughter, 12:12, Thu 10 May 2007: (Is this post abusive?) #
It is not my intention to start a "thread" on this site - anybody wishing to take up any issue with me is better able to do that as described above and below - but Mr Coltrane seems to misunderstand the nature of this website and the reason for my response, and consequently may have left some people with a very distorted impression of the "offer" this site makes its users. Firstly, I have no control over to whom this site forwards my comments. If Mr Coltrane has received an unwanted email, he needs to take it up with the administrators of this site: it is nothing to do with me.
Secondly, the website does not forward me individual messages. I get a single email saying that "x of your constituents have asked to hear from you". I am not told what they want to hear about. Even for an MP, a breed not usually associated with being short of words, it is difficult to know what to say to several hundred anonymous correspondents who "want to hear from you" on an unnamed subject or subjects....
I would like to reassure constituents that the best "e" way of contacting me with problems or policy questions is an email straight to my private inbox: slaughtera@parliament.uk Constituents interested in finding out about my activities in more general terms are invited to visit my website www.andyslaughter.com and sign up for my email newsletter. I have no particular agenda about this site and others like it, but given the ready access that email and websites give to me - and indeed the vast majority of MPs - it is difficult to see what the USP of sites like this is.
Andy Slaughter