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[bawdy-nan]

Just found my way to Tessa's website. It seems she's trying to demonstrate how often she heads south of the river as she's got a map with flags on citing visits. Very odd. Maybe she could strap a webcam to her head or wear a tracking device so we can see where she wanders ...

[Fear 'n boozin]

Hmmm, looking at that, I'd say she's visited the Palmerston, the Bishop, the Balck Cherry and the EDT, good work that woman!

[SeanMacGabhann]

Bah - I thought this thread was about Mockney Piers

[mockney piers]

Not to mention the Grove and quite possibly the Magdala.

I did once have the dubious 'honour' of seeing the lesser spotted Jowell down the Hamlets. Courting the populist vote no doubt as it was around the last election.

[bawdy-nan]

The woman gets a lot of stick on this forum about not showing her face in the area, but I remember a particularly glorious day when she stood at the bottom of Bawdale Road with a banner as part of the (very tiny) East Dulwich Rubbish! campaign. She was helping to complain about the fly-tipping that used to exist at the bottom of the road ...

[Ted Max]

I've been involved in two community projects and she's supported both - in one case giving virtually an entire Saturday afternoon of her time. It may be vote-grabbing but isn't that actually how you should go about winning votes?

[bawdy-nan]

indeed TedMax - I'm not sure she's may favourite newlabourite but (whisper) I don't think she's so bad as a local MP.

[Louisa]

Tessa Jowell isnt so bad, not as bad as the Peckham and Camberwell mp Harriet "deputy leader of the Labour Party" Harman. I saw Tessa at the last election wandering down CPR.

[Michael Palaeologus]

Interesting how sightings of Ms Jowell is around election time.

I went to see her about a politically sensitive matter - the shutting of a government funded organisation. This would (and did) result in the loss of the jobs of local people - but was as a result of a Cabinet decision.

A local MP would have put her constituents jobs first - she put the Government first and ran like a rabbit.

I have no political axe to grind, but I am not impressed by Ms Jowells priorties.

[monyvibescu]

I saw Tessa Jowell just before the last election standing outside Sainsbury's with a Dulwich Hamlet FC shirt on, which I thought was quite amusing. No doubt she's a regular at home matches...

[Marmora Man]

In my family HH is known as "do you know who I am Harman" after her performance at a local hospital trying to visit out of visiting hours and pressing staff to let her to the bedside because of her "status".

We've all heard about Two Jags Prescott, Labour?s former Deputy Leader. Now Harriet Harman is not only Deputy Leader and Chairman of the Labour Party, she is Leader of the House of Commons and is still supposed to be MP for Camberwell and Peckham (which now extends to the Lewisham boundary and takes in elements of East Dulwich). Despite the fact that she has been the local MP for 25 years, ask almost anyone on the street and they?d be hard pressed to say who she was. It?s time for her to go to the Lords and let us elect someone who will focus on looking after Camberwell and Peckham. Heaven knows we still have big problems, of genuine concern to the people that live here. Crime, education, jobs, the health service, especially the impending closure of the Maudsley Emergency Clinic, all these things could do with some attention from a hardworking local MP

[Tom]

She walked past me Lordship lane a few weeks back.

I am still gutted that i didn't stick my foot out and trip her up.

Maybe a well placed poke in her eye might be easier.

[Keef]

Anyone thought about sending this to her sight so she knows what people are saying????

I would, but I couldn't care less ;-)

She doesn't really need to be around the area to be it's MP though, she just needs to listen to people and take things up in Parliment.

[Fear 'n boozin]

I disagree Keef. I really think MPs should where possible, live in their consituencies. I know this isn't possible with most as they have to spend so much time in London, taking part in Parliamentary debates, scrutinising legislation and raising constiuency issues with Government.... Anyway, I see no reason why London MPs can't, in Tessa's case Westminster a stones throw away.

It's just, well, bad form.

[Keef]

But maybe she just doesn't want to live in ED..... I don't honestly see how it makes a difference, as long as she's doing a good job for the people that do live there....

Now I'm not saying she does or doesn't do a good job, I personally haven't had dealings. I'm just making the point that I don't think it matters if she's around or not.

[Fear 'n boozin]

She doesn't have to live in ED, just somewhere in her constituency. Nor do I mean she should live around her so she can be 'seen' in the are. I think she, or any MP, does need to be around if they are going to do a good job representing the people that voted for them.

[Keef]

She could register on here, that would give her a far better idea about the ED massive and what they want to moan about than living in ED ever would ;-)

[Fear 'n boozin]

It wouldn't tell her what the public transport service is like. She would experience trying to go to the Drs, or the dentist/post office etc. She wouldn't be able to have a drink in the cpt either.

[Keef]

Of course it would, there are loads of posts / threads on here about transport / recommended GPs and Dentists... I've lost count of how many recommendations I've given the CPT!!!! ;-) Not too sure I want her as a drinking buddy though..... Unless I can moan about the smoking abn all night!

[Fear 'n boozin]

posts aren't the same as experiencing it yourself.

[Keef]

Well whether she lives here or not, I can't see her using the public transport, of any local GP's!!!!

And I guess she'd be more a Green & Blue / Crown & Greyhound kind of girl as opposed to the CPT! ;-)

[Fear 'n boozin]

wm.she wont have a car now she's not a Minister.

Did anybody know Southwark has a mayor? Vickie Nash be her name. Never knew.

[Michael Palaeologus]

I have never been able to comprehend how, given that our MP was Minister in Charge of the Olympics, we are getting ZERO benefit from the Olympic activity.

All of the transport infrastructure is going elsewhere and I would give the East London Line phase 2 a cat-in-hells change of being delivered post 2012.

There was a punlic consultation about a tram link from Camden to Peckham - but that has gone quiet.

Whats the point in having an MP with power if she does bog all of fundamental benefit to the area? She may support this campaign or that that movement and wear a Dulwich Hamlet top when the cameras around, but we want to see better transport links, better schools and less crime.

[snorky]

Politicians are in it from themselves. Im surprised that people as so shocked when the realisation dawns on them

[Keef]

Fear 'n boozin Wrote:

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> wm.she wont have a car now she's not a Minister.

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> Did anybody know Southwark has a mayor? Vickie

> Nash be her name. Never knew.

That's because you're a fool! ;-)

Note: for anyone who thinks that's harsh, you don't know what wm. stands for..... I was provoked!