Some folks just don’t get it

As most of my regular readers are aware I engage, quite frequently with my local MP. I had a delightful e-mail exchange on the run up to the General Election which sadly didn’t tell me much, other than:

Whenever a politician says “balance” I immediately cringe, especially as it is a phrase that is overly used by one Mark Drakeford when speaking in political wibble.

Now, my initial e-mail was thorough, detailed and very specific in what I wanted, after all I wanted my MP to know just how much I knew about the subject I was writing to him about. Bearing in mind this was April 2015 so there were some parts I wasn’t so sure on then, but am now.

As I’m sure you have guessed, this is a pretty standard non-committal answer, and one that was most likely written by an assistant and not my MP himself. So I replied, detailing my concerns once more in direct response to his message. To which I get this response:

Strangely missing the point, and not really answering any of my concerns. My next message was unsurprisingly met with silence. Multiple attempts to arrange a face to face failed dismally, either I couldn’t get time off work to go see him, or he wasn’t available (odd that) whenever I was. Which leads me to my latest saga with my MP.

By now, most of you should have taken the opportunity to write to your MP or Welsh AM using the Write To Vape website, so instead of a direct mail as before I decided to use Write To Vape which based on the popular site Write To Them. Using this process, the addressee has to respond and respond he did.

Doesn’t it look incredibly familiar?

I’d be willing to bet that further attempts to arrange a face to face will fail again, but I’ll continue to bug the hell out of my MP until I get somewhere.

Some folks just do not get it.