Comments on: Private members bill, an invitation to change British law for the better http://blog.zedray.com/2008/12/04/private-members-bill-an-invitation-to-change-british-law-for-the-better/ Some notes on Android, Java and Politics. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:44:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Mark http://blog.zedray.com/2008/12/04/private-members-bill-an-invitation-to-change-british-law-for-the-better/#comment-10035 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:41:38 +0000 http://blog.zedray.com/2008/12/04/private-members-bill-an-invitation-to-change-british-law-for-the-better/#comment-10035 Well that was a waste of time. Channel 4 picked: - Tougher driving tests for overconfident teenagers - Mandatory year of working before university - Legalisation of Polygamy (as it would lower the number of divorces) Videos here*: http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/domestic_politics/the+law+in+your+hands/2837257 *I have no idea why the Polygamy woman was in a car park. For the record, the Private Members' Bills ballot results are here http://www.parliament.uk/faq/ballot_faq_page.cfm Ballot Results The 20 MPs successful in the ballot were as follows (in this order*): - Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Conservative MP for Chesham and Amersham and Shadow Secretary of State for Wales) - Mr David Heath (Liberal Democrat MP for Somerton and Frome) - Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Labour MP for Chorley) - Peter Luff (Conservative MP for Mid Worcestershire) - Dr Evan Harris (Liberal Democrat MP for Oxford West and Abingdon) - Malcolm Wicks (Labour MP for Croydon North and serves as the Prime Minister's special representative on international energy issues) - Mr Peter Ainsworth (Conservative MP for East Surrey and the Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) - David Mundell (Conservative MP for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale, MSP Shadow Cabinet of the Scottish Conservative Party) - Mrs Jacqui Lait (Conservative MP for Beckenham, Shadow Minister for London Department for Communities and Local Government) - Sir Paul Beresford (Conservative MP for Mole Valley) - Mr Stephen Crabb (Conservative Member of Parliament for Preseli Pembrokeshire) - Mrs Caroline Spelman (Conservative MP for Meriden, West Midlands, Conservative Party Chairman) - Mr Jeremy Browne (Liberal Democrat MP for Taunton) - Mr Jim Cunningham (Labour MP for Coventry South) - Mr Tim Boswell (Conservative MP for Daventry) - Mr Russell Brown (Labour MP for Dumfries and Galloway) - Mr Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat MP for Ross, Cromarty & Skye) - Philip Davies (Conservative MP for Shipley in West Yorkshire) - John Bercow (Conservative MP for Buckingham, Patron of the Tory Reform Group) - Mr Michael Mates (Conservative MP for East Hampshire) *Extra info from Wikipedia Does anyone live in any of these constituents and have the time to write to or talk with their MP? Is there a way to checkout the BTL portfolio of any of the above? Maybe we could do a mail shot or something? Google gave me this info on contacting your MP: http://www.parliament.uk/about/contacting/mp.cfm http://www.writetothem.com/ Where do we go from here? Well that was a waste of time.

Channel 4 picked:
- Tougher driving tests for overconfident teenagers
- Mandatory year of working before university
- Legalisation of Polygamy (as it would lower the number of divorces)

Videos here*:
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/domestic_politics/the+law+in+your+hands/2837257
*I have no idea why the Polygamy woman was in a car park.

For the record, the Private Members’ Bills ballot results are here
http://www.parliament.uk/faq/ballot_faq_page.cfm

Ballot Results
The 20 MPs successful in the ballot were as follows (in this order*):

- Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Conservative MP for Chesham and Amersham and Shadow Secretary of State for Wales)
- Mr David Heath (Liberal Democrat MP for Somerton and Frome)
- Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Labour MP for Chorley)
- Peter Luff (Conservative MP for Mid Worcestershire)
- Dr Evan Harris (Liberal Democrat MP for Oxford West and Abingdon)
- Malcolm Wicks (Labour MP for Croydon North and serves as the Prime Minister’s special representative on international energy issues)
- Mr Peter Ainsworth (Conservative MP for East Surrey and the Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
- David Mundell (Conservative MP for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale, MSP Shadow Cabinet of the Scottish Conservative Party)
- Mrs Jacqui Lait (Conservative MP for Beckenham, Shadow Minister for London Department for Communities and Local Government)
- Sir Paul Beresford (Conservative MP for Mole Valley)
- Mr Stephen Crabb (Conservative Member of Parliament for Preseli Pembrokeshire)
- Mrs Caroline Spelman (Conservative MP for Meriden, West Midlands, Conservative Party Chairman)
- Mr Jeremy Browne (Liberal Democrat MP for Taunton)
- Mr Jim Cunningham (Labour MP for Coventry South)
- Mr Tim Boswell (Conservative MP for Daventry)
- Mr Russell Brown (Labour MP for Dumfries and Galloway)
- Mr Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat MP for Ross, Cromarty & Skye)
- Philip Davies (Conservative MP for Shipley in West Yorkshire)
- John Bercow (Conservative MP for Buckingham, Patron of the Tory Reform Group)
- Mr Michael Mates (Conservative MP for East Hampshire)

*Extra info from Wikipedia

Does anyone live in any of these constituents and have the time to write to or talk with their MP?
Is there a way to checkout the BTL portfolio of any of the above?
Maybe we could do a mail shot or something?

Google gave me this info on contacting your MP:
http://www.parliament.uk/about/contacting/mp.cfm
http://www.writetothem.com/

Where do we go from here?

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