How not to Lobby
As a former Parliamentary staffer, here's a tip to those using the online generators that send mass email to all the MPs - DON'T. Flooding an MPs email inbox means that they won't be able to read and consider your comments.
Even worse is just letting the generator send a form letter - an emails that are the same as everybody elses means the MP knows you can't make a reasoned argument for your position.
But the absolute worse thing you can do is to make offensive comments - like suggesting the MP will go to hell if they vote for/against a bill - as that just gets sent straight to the trash can.
So, regardless of where you stand on the smacking issue - don't waste your time emailing MPs at the moment. They won't be able to reply to you, and because of the flood for and against they won't be able to judge what level of support for and against there is.
Even worse is just letting the generator send a form letter - an emails that are the same as everybody elses means the MP knows you can't make a reasoned argument for your position.
But the absolute worse thing you can do is to make offensive comments - like suggesting the MP will go to hell if they vote for/against a bill - as that just gets sent straight to the trash can.
So, regardless of where you stand on the smacking issue - don't waste your time emailing MPs at the moment. They won't be able to reply to you, and because of the flood for and against they won't be able to judge what level of support for and against there is.
posted by Michael at
7:05 PM
1 Comments:
Electronic petitions are equally pointless. It's impossible to maintain their integrity as it's way too easy for one person to add lots of different "signatures".
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Richard, at 2:06 PM
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