And I bet you were really polite!

And I bet you were really polite!

Here's my e-mail to Mr. Calvert:

As one of the voters in the new Morley & Outwood constituency, I am quite concerned by the article in the Yorkshire Evening Post on the 7th April - www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... 6207914.jp - in which a major development, which will bring jobs to this area (and I speak as someone who is currently unemployed) and a stadium which will benefit not just the team I support, but also the local area as a whole in terms of the sporting events which can be brought here, is seemingly trying to be hijacked by colleagues of yours from outside the constituency boundary.

The irony of this row over 'greenbelt' land, is that up until the 1980s, this area was covered by Newmarket Colliery, which was hardly an outstanding feature of natural beauty and, on closure, lost jobs and destroyed the community in terms of local residents having to move further a field to gain employment.

Please could you advise me on your opinions on this project.

And his response:


(I will update with responses from the other candidates when I get them...)

Here's my e-mail to Mr. Calvert:

As one of the voters in the new Morley & Outwood constituency, I am quite concerned by the article in the Yorkshire Evening Post on the 7th April - www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... 6207914.jp - in which a major development, which will bring jobs to this area (and I speak as someone who is currently unemployed) and a stadium which will benefit not just the team I support, but also the local area as a whole in terms of the sporting events which can be brought here, is seemingly trying to be hijacked by colleagues of yours from outside the constituency boundary.

The irony of this row over 'greenbelt' land, is that up until the 1980s, this area was covered by Newmarket Colliery, which was hardly an outstanding feature of natural beauty and, on closure, lost jobs and destroyed the community in terms of local residents having to move further a field to gain employment.

Please could you advise me on your opinions on this project.

And his response:


(I will update with responses from the other candidates when I get them...)

and email reply from mr balls dept:-

Thank you for your email message

Ed is always keen to receive email messages from people locally and from across the country. He reads all these emails and replies to as many as he can.

However, Parliamentary protocol dictates that Members of Parliament can only take up specific individual cases on behalf of their own constituents.

If you want Ed to take up a particular case on your behalf, we need to confirm that you are a constituent. So please ensure that you have included your full name and full postal address. If this is not included with your email, please could you resend with a full postal address. Then we will be able to deal properly with your query.

If you are emailing with a personal case from Morley, Churwell, Drighlington, Gildersome, Tingley, East Ardsley, West Ardsley, Lofthouse, Thorpe or Robin Hood, where Ed is currently the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the next election, then Ed will usually contact Colin Challen MP on your behalf.

If you have already sent your address, or emailed Ed before, then please accept our apologies for the inconvenience of this email.

Because of volume of emails, we cannot acknowledge emails directly - but if you are a current or prospective constituent and have included your name and address we will respond by post shortly.

If you are emailing Ed in his capacity as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, we will forward your email to his department - or you can email Ed directly at:
dcsf.ministers@dcsf.gsi.gov.uk


Kind regards

Carol Moran
Constituency Office Manager

don't know what good it is going to be speaking to colin challen when it is his mr balls's views i want, him being the prospective new mp !

and email reply from mr balls dept:-

Thank you for your email message

Ed is always keen to receive email messages from people locally and from across the country. He reads all these emails and replies to as many as he can.

However, Parliamentary protocol dictates that Members of Parliament can only take up specific individual cases on behalf of their own constituents.

If you want Ed to take up a particular case on your behalf, we need to confirm that you are a constituent. So please ensure that you have included your full name and full postal address. If this is not included with your email, please could you resend with a full postal address. Then we will be able to deal properly with your query.

If you are emailing with a personal case from Morley, Churwell, Drighlington, Gildersome, Tingley, East Ardsley, West Ardsley, Lofthouse, Thorpe or Robin Hood, where Ed is currently the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the next election, then Ed will usually contact Colin Challen MP on your behalf.

If you have already sent your address, or emailed Ed before, then please accept our apologies for the inconvenience of this email.

Because of volume of emails, we cannot acknowledge emails directly - but if you are a current or prospective constituent and have included your name and address we will respond by post shortly.

If you are emailing Ed in his capacity as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, we will forward your email to his department - or you can email Ed directly at:
dcsf.ministers@dcsf.gsi.gov.uk


Kind regards

Carol Moran
Constituency Office Manager

don't know what good it is going to be speaking to colin challen when it is his mr balls's views i want, him being the prospective new mp !

That is just the auto-reply e-mail from his office... I got one as well. The bit about Colin Challen is all to do with parliamentary protocol. If people from the new areas of the Morley bit of Morley and Outwood, not currently in Ed's seat of Normanton, want Ed to help on a current issue (before 6th May) then they must contact their sitting MP, which is Collin. Normally, MP's just pass letters on, so as to avoiding people having to write twice.

As I said, I think everyone who has written to him on the issue (and if you have included your name and address) will get a letter from him in due course.

That is just the auto-reply e-mail from his office... I got one as well. The bit about Colin Challen is all to do with parliamentary protocol. If people from the new areas of the Morley bit of Morley and Outwood, not currently in Ed's seat of Normanton, want Ed to help on a current issue (before 6th May) then they must contact their sitting MP, which is Collin. Normally, MP's just pass letters on, so as to avoiding people having to write twice.

As I said, I think everyone who has written to him on the issue (and if you have included your name and address) will get a letter from him in due course.