Politician’s blogs and more EU Anoraking
I’ve been reading a few political blogs recently, including Tom Watson and Richard Allen. I was going to write an entry arguing that more MPs should write blogs; they provide their constituents with an unrivalled amount of information about their representatives. It turns out that Clive Soley has written about it already. (He writes MPs (as in the plural of an MP) as MP’s; is that correct?)
My MP has a website but he doesn’t maintain it himself and it shows; there’s not the personal thoughts or the two-way communication. A side effect is that our politicans would be more tech-aware and might do more about software patents. I wrote a letter to my MP and he wrote a “nice” polite reply back but I got the distinct impression that he wasn’t outraged by the situation. Knocking Tony Blair’s door down to lambast him about the fiasco doesn’t seem high on his To-do list.
Richard Allen points out this nice summary of the EU constitution which I hadn’t seen before which was the original point of this entry before I went off on a tangent. At the debate I went to a lot of people were whining that the (foreign-owned) media would make the referendum unfair. The BBC seems to cover it in a positive light often enough and when somebody (anybody!) starts to make the case for in a organised, serious way it’ll get plenty of coverage.
In other news, I’ved been fiddling with the internals of Firefox recently, trying to alter its user interface a bit but all this XUL and XBL etc. is confusing, I think I might need to find a tame hacker to e-mail a few questions but more about that else-when.