My attention has been drawn to the Write To Them League Table measuring the responsiveness of our MPs to e-mails sent by constituencies.
The table makes grim reading for Worsley Labour MP Barbara Keeley, who ranks a miserable 583rd of the 633 MPs who are registered on the system - she replied promptly to less than one-third of e-mails sent via the site. Hazel Blears doesn’t fare much better, at 514th and a response rate of less than 50%. Only Eccles MP Ian Stewart comes out with any credit, and even he only ranks 325th. Could do much better.
Oh come on Iain. This is not up to standard. Even the Dale/Greer Organ/Monkey combo has admitted that. as I say here, this is not MySociety’s finest hour. However Matthew (from MySociety) makes a good point in comments there. Quite a few MPs for whom incorrect addressing has been used have taken themselves outside the stats. I would think it likely that other MPs are also either being treated to an excess of positives from admirers or mischievious tosh and negatives from opponents and whingers.
I think Greer was wrong to retract the criticism. The WriteToThem statistics are a small sample but a valid sample nonetheless. I’ve not read anything to suggest that the figures for Keeley, Blears and Stewart are inaccurate or that the WriteToThem e-mails have not been getting through.