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Post by maxque on Oct 2, 2022 17:06:24 GMT
Boycotting social media these days makes as much sense as an MP refusing to appear on TV or even the Radio! It makes much more sense. The abuse MPs receive online is well documented. All they need to do is contact their constituents. They can do that in local media, surgeries, via their websites, with canvassing. TV can supplement, including on a national level. Imagine if politicians stayed off social media. It could improve it! Local media is dead in many areas (or shamelessly partisan), many MPs don't hold surgeries or canvass themselves (it's below them). Many MPs are very content with interacting the least they can with the population. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2022 17:10:09 GMT
It makes much more sense. The abuse MPs receive online is well documented. All they need to do is contact their constituents. They can do that in local media, surgeries, via their websites, with canvassing. TV can supplement, including on a national level. Imagine if politicians stayed off social media. It could improve it! Local media is dead in many areas (or shamelessly partisan), many MPs don't hold surgeries or canvass themselves (it's below them). Many MPs are very content with interacting the least they can with the population. With canvassing I include leaflet dropping. And MPs bloody well should hold surgeries if they don’t! If not being on social media forced them to then that would be a great positive. |
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Post by neilm on Oct 2, 2022 18:22:28 GMT
It makes much more sense. The abuse MPs receive online is well documented. All they need to do is contact their constituents. They can do that in local media, surgeries, via their websites, with canvassing. TV can supplement, including on a national level. Imagine if politicians stayed off social media. It could improve it! Local media is dead in many areas (or shamelessly partisan), many MPs don't hold surgeries or canvass themselves (it's below them). Many MPs are very content with interacting the least they can with the population. Which MPs don't hold surgeries? I imagine that Stephen Timms and Nigel Jones knocked them on the head for a while but I've not come across any who don't do them. |
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Post by yellowperil on Oct 2, 2022 18:56:34 GMT
Local media is dead in many areas (or shamelessly partisan), many MPs don't hold surgeries or canvass themselves (it's below them). Many MPs are very content with interacting the least they can with the population. Which MPs don't hold surgeries? I imagine that Stephen Timms and Nigel Jones knocked them on the head for a while but I've not come across any who don't do them. A bit of an odd comment given that there is rather more extreme case much more recently than the Timms and Jones examples. |
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Post by neilm on Oct 2, 2022 19:19:50 GMT
Which MPs don't hold surgeries? I imagine that Stephen Timms and Nigel Jones knocked them on the head for a while but I've not come across any who don't do them. A bit of an odd comment given that there is rather more extreme case much more recently than the Timms and Jones examples. He died so self evidently would not be holding further surgeries. |
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Post by batman on Oct 2, 2022 19:46:20 GMT
Neither of those MPs (Jones is now Lord Jones of Cheltenham) died, though Timms was very seriously ill and Jones also badly injured. However, someone (his assistant, Andrew Pennington) was very sadly killed in the attack on Nigel Jones's surgery.
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Post by johnloony on Oct 2, 2022 20:38:46 GMT
A bit of an odd comment given that there is rather more extreme case much more recently than the Timms and Jones examples. He died so self evidently would not be holding further surgeries. ”He”? Who? |
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Post by johnloony on Oct 2, 2022 20:39:08 GMT
A bit of an odd comment given that there is rather more extreme case much more recently than the Timms and Jones examples. He died so self evidently would not be holding further surgeries. ”He”? Who? |
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Post by neilm on Oct 2, 2022 21:00:27 GMT
He died so self evidently would not be holding further surgeries. ”He”? Who? David Amess. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2022 16:47:26 GMT
Yes please!
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Post by johnloony on Oct 3, 2022 20:48:17 GMT
How about an alternative parallel universe, in which everybody in Bedfordshire Mid constituency thinks there's a general election, and there isn't one anywhere else?
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Post by peterl on Oct 3, 2022 21:24:10 GMT
How about an alternative parallel universe, in which everybody in Bedfordshire Mid constituency thinks there's a general election, and there isn't one anywhere else? So that would basically be like a by election... |
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Post by aargauer on Oct 3, 2022 21:40:21 GMT
She wants a dissolution peerage and she wants it now! |
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Post by johnloony on Oct 4, 2022 0:43:59 GMT
How about an alternative parallel universe, in which everybody in Bedfordshire Mid constituency thinks there's a general election, and there isn't one anywhere else? So that would basically be like a by election... For the rest of the world, it would be a by-election. But for the voters, candidates, agents, and activists of Bedfordshire Mid, and for Nadine Dorries herself, it would be a general election. They would all be living in a parallel universe in which a general election is happening in the whole country. They would see the national campaign on TV and in the media. Only when the declaration has happened does the parallel universe wrap itself up and merge into the rest of the world to reveal that it was only a by-election. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2022 16:02:00 GMT
That sounds like the plot of a Tom Holt novel
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2022 17:16:25 GMT
I have come across people who genuinely believed a local by-election was part of a full council election
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Post by johnloony on Oct 8, 2022 21:56:32 GMT
I have come across people who genuinely believed a local by-election was part of a full council election It may be that lay non-political people just misunderstand the terminology. I once had a conversation with someone who referred to “the by-election” when they simply meant the local election. |
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