[OSM-legal-talk] Vote for Google to liberate their aerial imagery - *please help*

[Francis Davey]

2009/9/13 Matt Amos <zerebubuth at gmail.com>

> seems to work at least as well as writing to my MP. the responses have
> always been of two general forms:
>
> 1) thank you for your input. what you have said agrees with what my
> party whips say. i hope i can count on your support at the next
> election.
>
> 2) thank you for your input. what you have said disagrees with what my
> party whips say, and here are their reasons why you're wrong:...
>
>
My MP (Dianne Abbott) tends to respond in roughly the same way except with
the views of the party whips broadly reversed (I'm often criticising her
party's policies and she usually agrees) but I do get some "how interesting"
responses when I've obviously drawn her attention to something she wasn't
aware of but she's sympathetic to (happens in housing quite a bit) and one
*very* defensive letter about MP's expenses.

I still think its useful. MPs do get swayed, things do chance. When we were
campaigning against the original Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill the
fact that so many MPs got emails and letters from our supporters alerted a
lot of them to the strength of feeling that existed and gave the Bill much
more profile, ultimately leading to a major government climb down. On the
way we got fobbed off a lot by lots of people, but change did happen.

-- 
Francis Davey
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