Who is your MP?

Who is your MP?

• 46% of people do not know
• a further 9% think they know,
  but get the answer wrong

  (source Electoral Commission report, see page 28)

WriteToThem

• 100,000 messages sent
• 700 to Welsh Assembly
• Boiler moved
• An MP tried to cheat
• Write to a Lord

  (source Electoral Commission report, see page 28)

Building websites that deliver simple, tangible benefits to civil society at very low cost per person helped

• A mixture of paid people and volunteers
• Mainly Government funded
• Same cost regardless of number of users

Before TheyWorkForYou

After TheyWorkForYou

TheyWorkForYou

• Ask forgiveness, not permission
• "In yesterdays Hansard, Jim Marshall appears to have voted in two divisions, and yet he is dead."

TheyWorkForYou

• 28,000 email alerts
• NGOs, local journalists, political parties, individuals
• Cambridge, Manchester Withington and Bristol West

TheyWorkForYou

• In the House of Commons, Jack Straw blamed us this July for an increase in Written Questions by MPs, saying it “seems to measure Members' work in quantitative rather than qualitative terms”
• In the House of Lords, Lord Gould said mySociety were the “probably the biggest single catalyst for political change in this country”

PledgeBank

PledgeBank

• Digital rights group, 1000 pay 5/month to start
• Promise to use a new bus service
• Donate books to build a library in India
• Lots more

Who is next?

• Journalists
• Freedom of Information
• Europe, Scotland, Georgia
• Welsh Assembly — looks promising

WriteToThem.com

TheyWorkForYou.com

HearFromYourMP.com

PledgeBank.com

Francis Irving
francis@mysociety.org