Tessa Jowell - disappointed

[louisiana]

A week on, still waiting for any kind of *human* response from Tessa Jowell's office regarding an email that I sent a week ago.

Given that the subject matter is very much 'time is of the essence' (the Digital Economy Bill, with Harriet Harman likely to make an announcement this Thursday on arrangements for rushing this Bill through in an undemocratic way without any proper debate; and with contentious issues likely to be included in the 'wash up'), this is not what I expect from my MP.

Am I expecting too much?

Or perhaps Tessa just doesn't care any more?? (there's a few of those around, the ones that are leaving)

[SeanMacGabhann]

I suspect you are the only person who has written to her this week

probably

And still she won't respond eh?

tsk

I know this bill has generated enormous amounts of debate and traffic - I've registered my own protest as well, but I'm not sure what kind of meaningful response you can expect from tess at this point, within a week

[louisiana]

Yeah, well I know she's written back to someone else locally on this issue in a few days...

Maybe my letter just fell behind the filing cabinet? :-/

There is definitely a postbag on this one; and I think a major issue is the complacency of MPs on the issue (kind of "oh I don't like measures xyz, and (so?) it probably won't get through). Many don't seem to realise that by this stage it's a done deal as far as MPs are concerned. But then Tessa is not just an MP right, so her loyalties perhaps don't lie with her constituents??

(but rather with the BPI, IFPI and all their works)

Did anyone mention lobbying? ;-)

[louisiana]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> I suspect you are the only person who has written

> to her this week

>

> probably

>

> And still she won't respond eh?

>

> tsk

>

> I know this bill has generated enormous amounts of

> debate and traffic - I've registered my own

> protest as well, but I'm not sure what kind of

> meaningful response you can expect from tess at

> this point, within a week

The way that most other MPs are responding to their constituents. Which is to say they are referring the matter to the minister or somesuch.

I mean, any response would be better than none.

[PeckhamRose]

I had a letter from 'her' today about the Save the South london line.

So that's what she did yesterday, wrote to me.

[lpool]

I wrote to her about 3 weeks ago and still await a reply. Mine was to do with the new law coming in in April that requires planning permission to be obtained in future when renting out a property to 3 or more people sharing.

[TJMP]

An email has been sent to louisiana and a PM to lpool on the issues they have raised.

Tessa Jowell MP (Office)

[Carrie]

My OH wrote to TJ about Melbourne Grove Health Centre and got a response back within about a week - all in all I don't think that is a bad service from a busy MP given the size of postbag she must have

[taper]

If the issue is a local one (so eg Melbourne Grove GPs) then you can legitimately expect a quicker reply than if the issue is one where the MP needs to write to the Minister concerned for a response (eg Digital Economy).

[TonyQuinn]

I launched my campaign (Dulwich version) to strip First Crapital Connect of its license on this forum, and Tess, or at least one of her office, got in touch with me on the day. Again, not bad. Go Tessa go!