Comment by edent
13 hours ago
What did your local politician say when you wrote to them and suggested it?
(I've worked with several politicians. You'd be surprised what a well timed letter or meeting can achieve.)
13 hours ago
What did your local politician say when you wrote to them and suggested it?
(I've worked with several politicians. You'd be surprised what a well timed letter or meeting can achieve.)
Not much...
I wrote a few times to my local MPs ("député", as we call them in France). I usually got a response, though I suspect it was written by their secretary with no other consequence. In one case (related to privacy against surveillance), they raised a question in the congress, which had just a symbolic impact.
It may be different in other countries. In France, Parliament is de-facto a marginal power against a strong executive power. Even the legal terms are symptomatic of this situation: the government submits a "project of law" while MPs submit a "proposal of law" (which, for members of the governing party, is almost always written by the government then endorsed by some loyal MP).