engaging politicians - stella creasy mp
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Slides from Stella Creasy MP's appearance on the 'Engaging politicians' panel at the 2014 ECF event in Oxford, UK.TRANSCRIPT
Control, Alt(ernatives) Delete? Rebooting the Campaign to Change the World....
Stella Creasy MP
At 32% there has been no change in the number of people who believe that if people ‘like me’ get involved, they can change the way the country is run
Only 41% now say that in the event of an immediate general election they would be certain to vote compared to 48% who
said the same last year
Only 23% are satisfied with the way that MPs generally are doing their job and only 34% say the same about their own local MP
63% of the public say that if they are dissatisfied with political decisions they have a duty to do something about it
Hansard Audit of Political Engagement 2013
Only half the public (50%) have undertaken at least one of a list of 13 political activities in the last year
• 27% report voting in an election• 20% have donated money to a charity or campaign
organisation• Fewer than one in 10 people have created or signed either
an e-petition (9%) or paper petition (8%) or contacted an elected representative (8%).
However, 78% of the public claim they would be prepared to do one or more of a list of 13 political activities if they felt strongly about an issue.
The activities people are most likely to say they would do in the future are vote (42%) and contact an elected representative (41%)
2013 2014
And now on twitter and facebook….
Signals and Noise: March 27 to April 3 2014
• Provide cancer education in schools
• Government not listening to teachers opinions
• Please back surveillance reform• Justice on our roads APPG • Barclays Bank• Stand up for Education • Help Keep Cruelty History –
please register your details in support of the Hunting Act
• Threat to the 2004 Hunting Act
• End the arms trade with Israel• Please push forward the bill to
ban wild animals in circuses• Planned changes to copyright
law • Your chance to repeal the
gagging law• Why it is important to repeal
the gagging law • Please repeal the gagging law• This shouldn’t be controversial• Take action now
Your and my worst nightmare……..
Many into one….
• 1,700 new pieces of personal casework in last year
• 250 pieces of housing casework alone
• On average 140 live personal cases per week
• 2,500 pieces of policy casework already handled –another 2,167 to process!
• Consumer Rights legislation • Approx 2,500 emails per
week
• 5.5 members of staff- no unpaid staff
• Organised 300 volunteers in the 7days4stow project
• 5,000 recipients of weekly e-newsletter
• National sharkstoppers campaign
• Circular firing up squad• Spoken in 34 debates, tabled
37 questions and voted in 80% of all divisions
@jonwillchambers
@Fash_Rev, #TrevorLeighton,
#FashionRevolutionDay
a customer complaints desk....?• Specialise – don’t scattergun ! • Collaborate- don’t alienate so involve us in
planning not just execution....• Don’t brief us- we can read! • Ask more, not less - choices not just concerns • Make it easy to engage- send us the mailing list! • Do your homework – know what we can and can’t
do e.g. EDMs, PMBs, local councils...• Work with each other- don’t ask us to pick
between badgers, the NHS and bees!